Social Bookmarks vs Search Engines

There are many important differences between Search Engines and Social Bookmarking sites which we must consider. For example, Search Engines are not limited in how much information, or websites, they can categorize and store. They send out spiders, crawlers, or robots which follow links, take a snapshot of a web-page and store it in their database then move on. This can realistically continue forever. Instead, Social Bookmark sites are limited by the number of users they have in their network. If only 100 users are registered, only 100 users can add, rate and tag new web pages and the maximum amount of traffic you can ever get from that site is 100 people. Since Social Bookmark sites are updated by human beings, they are susceptible to intentional mishaps like spamming and misleading. They are also susceptible to trivial things like spelling mistakes and bias.

Search Engines market on being able to provide almost any kind of information. They need to cater for the broadest spectrum possible in order to stay ahead. They need to be able to provide educational material for students, entertainment sites or videos, or whatever. On the other hand Social Bookmarking sites do not need to provide information on any particular subject or topic. While the majority thrive on the most attention grabbing, interesting information, ie videos, funny pictures, etc. Many Social Bookmark sites are specialized in areas like technology, programming, news & journalism, etc and may discard anything that doesn’t relate to its particular niche.

Search Engines will search and list as much of your site as they can, which is generally every single page which is linked from somewhere. Social Bookmark sites will only add one page or article at a time and only when someone physically submits and rates it.

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