Yahoo updates and improves its toolbar

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Yahoo updates and improves its toolbar

October 26, 2006

Yahoo has updated the new beta versions of its Yahoo Toolbar (for IE) and Yahoo Bookmarks, which first appeared on the Yahoo Toolbar seven years ago.

Back in 1999, the real virtues of online bookmarks were simply portability and backup. Yahoo Bookmarks allowed users to store their favorite sites and get to them from any computer connected to the Internet.

Fast forward to today, and our experiences with next-generation bookmarking have convinced us that it is time to bring Yahoo Bookmarks to the next level.

Here's a quick list of some of the new features on both products. Long-time users of Yahoo Toolbar and Yahoo Bookmarks should find that this combined release delivers a lot of what they've been waiting for.

New Yahoo Toolbar Features:

Toolbar integration with the new Yahoo Bookmarks

Type-ahead bookmark suggestions from the toolbar search box

The ability to create and use new buttons

New features for Yahoo Bookmarks:

Advanced search functionality

Thumbnails for quickly recognizing sites

Convenient drag-and-drop management

Organize bookmarks with folders and tags

Ability to save page content along with the URL

Editing abilities when saving

An end to the 1000 bookmark limit

The new Yahoo Bookmarks will focus on personal saving, organization, and recovery while our comrades at del.icio.us will concentrate on meeting your social bookmarking and sharing needs.

For users of MyWeb, your bookmarks are safe, and in a few months you'll be able to roll over to either Yahoo Bookmarks or del.icio.us. Yahoo will explain the process more thoroughly in future posts.

Source: Yahoo

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