google browser sync

Google Browser Sync is a Firefox extension to maintain synchronization across multiple computers of various browser settings -- notably, for me, bookmarks; something I've been seeking for a long time.

On syncing bookmarks between computers, I began cutting through old folders of favorites I'd spent pains in compiling years ago. I used to script-publish this nealtly categorized description of my interests: music, computing, people; and felt some pride in the archive.

I've now gotten rid of nearly everything. Not that it's no longer interesting, but because it's a lot easier to find, quickly. I use bookmarks now for the links I visit very frequently, or pages marked to check out.

Google's full-text indexing, pagerank, and presence on the browser's toolbar have changed the way I navigate the web in the same way it made inefficient Yahoo's (and other engines') human-powered categorization. Instead of having to hang on to links when I find them, to minimize digging next time, I query for exactly what I'm looking for, and trust the results.

Still fresh old news.

Thanks for the tip Jeff. Browser Sync is the dog's bollocks!

(If you're on a crappy network though, it takes a long time for your browser to start...)

-- Ed (June 28, 2006 9:45 AM)

i take it that "dog's bollocks" means something is good?

in miles davis' autobiography he over-extends the convention of using "bad" to mean "good. if someone says "that cat was bad," you can usually tell, (even in writing,) that he means "good." miles would refer to someone's playing as "terrible" though, then nextbreath say about how amazing it was... horribly (badly) confusing.

-- jeffschuler (July 5, 2006 6:33 PM)