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15 Aug 2005
MyWeb 2.0 @ Yahoo
This new service by Yahoo was all over the web last week. One of the services is a bookmark service. Users can add their bookmarks and publish them to their community, to the world or keep them to themselves. This service also allow a user to add tags. It is nice that the service does give tag suggestions based on what a user types. This might keep the typos down.
I guess the most interesting service is their new search. I do not yet quite get it, but it seems to search only within the bookmarked pages your own community. I guess that is supposed to give better results.
Is this good enough? I do not think so. For one thing they should pool bookmarks with other bookmark hosting services. I am not again going to enter my stuff there. It can import from my del.icio.us feed, but they should subscribe. And what about bookmarks that are no longer in that feed? Nice that it takes the tags as well. Anyway it is a good start.
I do not know about the search service yet and whether it will give me better results. The idea has been around longer and is related to the trusted web. I will decide on that later. Again the most important is that something is happening in this space.