Delicious and Furl are two social bookmarking sites. When browsing both of these sites I found them to be fairly similar in the services they provided however I preferred Delicious for a few reasons:
-I had better search results when I used Delicious. For example, on both sites I wanted to add BBCNews as one of my bookmarks. When I searched on Delicious the results was the BBCNews Front Page, or main news site. On Furl the search results were all individual news stories on the BBC page. Although when I searched for CNN on Furl the first result was the main CNN page, so perhaps it was just something with BBCNews?
-All the most popular bookmarks on the Furl main page were from the New York Times, on Delicious there was much more of a variety
-Furl offered users Furl Groups, on Delicious this was considered your network.
-Delicious allowed users to add tags to bookmarks and also search for bookmarks by specific tags. I couldn't find any tags on Furl.
-I liked the look of Delicious, it was more user-friendly than Furl and much easier to search
-Furl had advertising! I kept accidentally clicking on the "Add URL" Google Ad, it was distracting and frustrating
I will definitely continue to use Delicious for social bookmarking, as I was not very impressed with Furl.
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I hate those ads that look like part of the site design!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't noticed the lack of diversity in Furl bookmarks, but now that you've pointed it out I realize you are totally right. I think you make a good point that it compares unfavorably to Delicious in that regard.