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Google Bookmarks was an online bookmarking service from
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, launched on October 10, 2005. It was an early cloud-based service that allowed users to bookmark
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s and add labels or notes. The service never became widely adopted by Google users. Users could securely access their bookmarks on any device by signing into their
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. The online service was designed to store a single user's bookmarks as opposed to social and enterprise online bookmarking services that encouraged sharing bookmarks. The bookmarks were searchable, and searches were performed on the full text of the bookmark; including page title, labels and notes. Additionally, a simple bookmarklet (
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function) labeled Google Bookmark was at the bottom of the Google Bookmarks page which could be dragged to the toolbar of any browser to make bookmarking more convenient. This opened a window which simplified the process to save the bookmark to Google Bookmarks and add notes and labels. The service was discontinued on September 30, 2021.


See also

* Bookmark (digital) * Comparison of enterprise bookmarking platforms *
Social bookmarking Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share Internet bookmark, bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious (website), Delicious, founded i ...
* List of social bookmarking websites


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{{Google LLC Bookmarks Online bookmarking services Internet properties established in 2005 Internet properties disestablished in 2021