How-to Move Delicious Links to Google Bookmarks
I’ve been a fan of Delicious for a while now (even back when they were del.icio.us), but the process of tagging and organizing saved bookmarks is often tedious. I must admit, I really don’t use Delicious for all it’s intended. I don’t share links with friends or create groups, etc. None of the social features are important to me. I really just use it so I can access and save important bookmarks all in one place online. It’s been great; often I get better and more relevant results (depending on the search query) out of Delicious than I would from other search engines.
What many people don’t know is that Google has a bookmarking service with similar features as Delicious. If you have any sort of Google related account, its a snap to get started. Some of the main advantages of having Google Bookmarks over Delicious is the ability to use one account (Delicious is owned by Yahoo), better search technology and ease of use.
So if you’re in the same boat as I am and want to transfer your Delicious bookmarks to Google, but didn’t want to do it manually, I’ve got the solution for you. Persistent.info has created a Delicious to Google Bookmarks script. Here’s how you get it to work:
- Make sure you’re logged in to your Google account
- Jog on over to Persistent.info and find their Delicious to Google Bookmarks script.
- Login with your Delicious password (Persistent.info publishes their source code, so rest assured that your credentials are in safe hands).
- Click import and wait about 20 seconds.
- Magically your bookmarks have now been moved over to Google Bookmarks. Feel free to edit, remove, etc your bookmarks. Google Bookmarks are marked private unless you tell them otherwise.
If you’re a Firefox user, check out the GMarks plugin. Use it to help you sync, edit and remove bookmarks right on your local machine.
Google Bookmarks also includes a bookmarklet. Drag it to your browser toolbar and you’re making magical bookmarks in no time.
Have you tried Google Bookmarks or are you a Delicous die hard? Worried about the big, bad Google privacy gorilla? Tell me in the comments.
