I never stopped bookmarking. Type a word and usually the browser will find that long lost page from the bookmarks.
Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again.
Submitted 10 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
lorkano@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t even have to bookmark. You type few words separated by spaces of anything in browser history, browser will show it as a suggestion. Example steam palworld Jira projectname board Etc.
Plopp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t clear your browsing history regularly?
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Wtf? Yall have been using Search Engines to go to websites you’ve been to before? Why even, just type the url in…
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“ne” enter for netflix.com
“l” press enter for lemmy.world
Auto completing urls are so fast.
acetanilide@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I accidentally used chrome the other day.
Tried to go to Gmail with “gm” enter.
No autocomplete, just a Google search.
Almost went to the General Motors website.
Raptor_007@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a level of hell to watch other people continue to type out the full URL while the auto complete is already there, until they make that one typo towards the end and hit enter before you had a chance to tell them.
Silentiea@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Truth, but it’s three more key presses when I can just click the bookmark under the address bar instead of clicking the address bar. Takes you three times longer!
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Even better, save specific search engines with shortcut codes: type ‘w’ + <Space>, start typing to search on Wikipedia.
backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
The only reason I don’t bookmark much, is because I’m actively hoarding 517 tabs.
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That was me, but I found bookmarking to be better. Very rarely I’ve had Chrome crash and not be able to recover my tabs. With bookmarking, I don’t need to worry about that. And I can pick up my browsing on a different device very easily with bookmarking, as my bookmarks are automatically synced via chrome.
backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
luckily for me, Firefox is probably the most stable part of my system
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I just moved to a new computer and cleaned up all my tabs.
You have Tabs Disease™ and the cure is bookmarks. Spend some time organizing your bookmarks. Set reminders to read or do things so you can close the ones you won’t need in the future. This is the equivalent of living in a messy room surrounded by trash, dirty laundry, and clean but unfolded laundry. Gotta take some time away from living and playing to clean up.
EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 10 months ago
People stopped bookmarking?
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
Trust me, most people don’t even know what that star in the URL bar is for
oatscoop@midwest.social 10 months ago
It’s the Yelp review, duh.
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Google has been so bad it’s making bing better. No seriously, bing is better than Google.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Until SEO comes for Bing…
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Arg… I hope they don’t. Mess up google. I don’t care.
Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah I moved to bing a year ago, it genuinely is.
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Its pretty good. At least for now the results is not garbage on the top links.
MossBear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I didn’t realize people stopped…bookmarks are incredibly useful.
badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bring back personal homepages and webrings!
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And visitor counters
Zerlyna@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Geocities!
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Neocities is the successor! It’s pretty cool
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 10 months ago
The old internet done for a laugh
callouscomic@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I never stopped bookmarking.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The keywords for bookmarks in Firefox are amazing. I type the thing my brain thinks of when I think of a website and boom I’m there.
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
People don’t bookmark? I have dozens of bookmarks all set up in folders. It’s just easier than typing every time. Plus, I have a PC connected to my TV for watching illegal sports streams. With bookmarks, I don’t need my keyboard most of the time. I just have a wireless mouse and that’s it.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
illegalMaybe you should not admit that you are breaking the law
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DDG seems to still function nicely. And I’ve never stopped using bookmarks. Didn’t know people weren’t using bookmarks anymore… I mean, what do you? Search for the same website you frequently use or just make a button that can do it in one click?
Plopp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DDG is complete dogshit. It’s my primary search engine and it drives me mad with how useless it is. It was pretty bad but it’s gotten way way worse over the past couple of months I feel.
And yeah until a couple of days ago I hadn’t bookmarked anything for 13 years. I just keep tabs open, remember names of sites or search the web. But I think I’ll start bookmarking again in some cases, but bookmarks suck ever since Delicious disappeared.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DuckDuck Go toon getting used to for me due to it lacking all the convenient algorithms from Google that… used to in the past… contribute to getting better search results.
The lack of these conveniences is why I switched to DDG years ago in the first place. I realised Google was essentially helping everyone build their own Internet echo chambers and I didn’t want to be part of that.
It does mean you actually need to be good at searching for what you want because DDG is very bad at “guessing”.
Or to put it differently; I call you complaints skill issues. :)
loxdogs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
From my personal experience it became worse in the past few years. Sometimes I couldn’t find something only to find it with one search request in google or yandex /:
qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ddg is great for the US, but shit outside.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I live in Denmark. I can’t complain.
art@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve never let go of bookmarks and RSS. Still the best systems around.
kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I alreeady bookmarked but with this whole enshitification I began hoarding data. All those txts, images, videos, songs that I bookmarked? Am downloading and categorizing all of it
key@lemmy.keychat.org 10 months ago
I never use bookmarks. Not because of search engines but because of browser history.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I bookmark so much these days. Other times I collect links with better descriptions in Joplin.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 10 months ago
I know people that just keep all of their tabs and never close them rather than bookmark. Its insane to me, I don’t get it.
DeafeningDistance@feddit.ch 10 months ago
I group tabs I’m working on and yes I could bookmark them but my bookmark folders are such a mess. I can clean them up. So what’s the reason I don’t bookmark you might wonder? It’s lazyness
acetanilide@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I bookmark a lot of the websites I’m using.
My bookmark folders are insane.
I almost never actually use them unless I’m looking for that one website I probably bookmarked 2 years ago.
NoFood4u@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
you are way more right than you think. Now that i think about it i started bookmarking more and more in correlation with the search engine enshittification trend.
InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Sounds like someone has been searching YouTube on google every time they wanted to watch YT
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So I’m not really crazy right? Google has been going downhill over the past year or so?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes. Just today I googled “normal standing heartrate”. What I received were a bunch of pages telling me a normal resting heart rate.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
bring back del.icio.us cowards
malean@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I didn’t know something like that existed, I usually use a service as cloudhiker to explore interesting web pages, but I don’t like the ads and the redirecting, so I am currently I am searching for alternatives.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
del.icio.us back in the early 2000s before it was bought by (i think yahoo) was amazing.
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
someguy3@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
What’s that?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
old social bookmarking site that pretty much popularized the concept of tagging
j4k3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Offline AI is a better search engine now. Even at 20% fake or made up references, it is better than a search engine.
The reverse is likely true. Search engines suck because they are actively trying to edge out the AI competition as the products that will emerge from AI will soon make search engines unprofitable for peripheral data mining through stalking people.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RSS and bookmarks. I never stopped. Firefox even searches first on my bookmarks and offers them before the online search option.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bookmarks and search engines serve different purposes, though search engines can replace bookmarks. But the main purpose of a search engine is to find sites you’ve never been to before because they contain specific information you’re looking for.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m saying previously you may have not bookmarked it because you’d be confident you can easily find that info again. Now that search sucks, you may not be able to find it again. So you’ll bookmark good information.
Chadsalot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Excuse me, my 783 loose bookmarks and I would like to have a word.
Takios@feddit.de 10 months ago
Never stopped using them!
The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve literally been doing this since 2021
alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org I have the perfect tool for you lemmy.world/post/12808358
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I always bookmark sites I know I will use frequently. I didn’t realize people didn’t do that anymore lol
What happened to the search engines? They always seem to work fine for me
snooggums@midwest.social 10 months ago
I mostly get sponsored sites or content farms that repeat the same text about things as other context farms, but no answers to what I’m actually looking for. Or I want to know about something that happened a while ago, but it only gives me results for the most recent version of the thing despite including details that should limit it to the prior one.
My search criteria is the same as I used 10 years ago when I actually got helpful results.
Search engine optimization has ruined search engines.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For much of the internet, optimization used to mean improving usefulness and usability for end users. Now that we (as a society as well as individually) can’t go without the internet anymore, optimization means improving usefulness for shareholders and/or advertisers, to the detriment of the user. This doesn’t matter to them anymore though, since giving up on search engines, social media etc just isn’t an option for users anymore.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Most people don’t know advanced googling anymore, even though it largely still works.
As far as people not using bookmarks, they just refuse to close tabs until they’re sure they’ll never return to a given site. People even obsess over tree style tabs and other tab organizing add-ons or features rather than, y’know, using bookmarks with folders which can already handle all of that.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
What do you consider advanced googling?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 10 months ago
It’s been years since I felt any satisfaction using a search engine, personally. Between the ocean of sponsored results and the ever-growing mountain of AI-generated Search Engine Optimisation-filled garbage it’s so much harder to find stuff than a decade ago.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
My problem is that when I search for something, I often want to find precisely the text that I’m searching for. Not just some of the words, not synonyms, and not random stuff with no apparent connection to it. Putting the search query in quotes doesn’t always help.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 10 months ago
AI happened. Beyond the immediate issue of decabytes of garbage articles that now show up any time you search something, information on the internet has now crossed the line to “inherently untrustworthy” because anything could be AI generated. If you’re not able to confirm that a real human being wrote the information you’re looking at, you just have to assume it’s wrong.
The internet was definitely a sketchy place in the past, but there were at least a few places you could go to get reliable information. Those places either don’t exist anymore, have become buried in the avalanche of AI garbage, or have become AI garbage themselves. Bookmarking a place when you do find it, like OP is suggesting, doesn’t sound like such a bad idea now.