I’ve been going over my RSS feeds this morning and I found a bunch of cool things that I’ve been forwarding to my team. Helpful tools, articles that explain tough concepts… good stuff. As I was doing that, I kept thinking, “Oooo, I should bookmark this so I can find it again later.”

That’s when it hit me, and I’m sure I’m not the first to arrive at this one:

Bookmarks are worthless.

I was thinking about it and with some very small exceptions I can’t actually remember the last time I visited a site based on bookmarks. Generally speaking, Google is my bookmark anymore (and not in a “Google Bookmarks” way). If I need to find something, I just search for it. Chances are the resource I would have bookmarked before has been superceded by some better, newer resource anyway. If it’s really good, I might blog it so I can tell people about it, but even by doing that, I’m contributing to the PageRank of the resource so if I go search for it again, it’s still on Google. Or, barring that, I can search my own site for the link I posted and get it there.

The only real exceptions to this are internal sites - stuff like the expense report system or the PTO request form that I might use a lot but aren’t in Google and aren’t right on the intranet home page. Other than that, I think I’m going to clean out my bookmarks - I don’t need ‘em.