In anticipation of losing the flexible functionality of bookmarks in the current MyYahoo page, I've been adding bookmarks to Google. This is a component of the Google Search History (beta) feature that I just rediscovered. Since I rely so heavily on my bookmarks in My Yahoo I ignored this until now. Since it looks like Yahoo will completely change the way My Yahoo users' bookmarks are organized, I thought I should look for another alternative and was reminded of Google's bookmarks in the Google Hacks book which described how easy it is to tag, sort, and search for your stored links. And it is.
I couldn't figure out a way to import bookmarks from another source so I've been adding some each day. The ones I set up in Yahoo are well organized in topical folders and subfolders so I've been trying to get through a folder a day.
Since I have to go through each one, it is at least a good opportunity to update some links that have been changed, delete others that I never use anymore, and rediscover some bookmarks I forgot about, like this Government Accountability Office report about the myriad insurance programs the federal government operates.
Google has a bookmarklet that you can drag up to your Bookmarks Toolbar, so that all you have to do is click on it to create a Google Bookmark for whatever page is in your browser. Each bookmark can be given various tags or labels that you create, and Google remembers which labels you've already created and provides for autcompletion to speed things along.
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