February 19th, 2007 
Diana
There are so many technologies on the internet and different names it behooves me to name them all. Some of them you may be familiar like Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves which are the better known search engines. While these play important roles in our lives where the internet is concerned, there are others that are not so popular and relatively unheard of.
You may be wondering what Ma.gnolia is. To understand Ma.gnolia completely, let’s begin with a story called “And on the First Day, There was Search.†Really, on the first day there was just one web page. Then there were two, and a link was made between them. Before long, there were lots of web pages, with many links between them, and suddenly we needed specialized web sites to help us find other web sites. And the term ‘search engine’ became part of our new web vocabulary. What an impact those search engines made.
But things are different now. Even the best search engines can’t always be sure of what you want to find in the thousands of pages it finds on every search. And with so many pages, searching has been getting tough. Websites can be misleading about what content they really hold or how good they are. Search engines are just software. What if a person could look at every page on the internet and make sure it showed up only in the right searches? Sounds nice, but wouldn’t we all have to pay hundreds of dollars a month just to search?
But that’s exactly what Ma.gnolia does. This is the place where members save websites as bookmarks, just like in their browser. Except with a twist – they also “tag†them and assign labels that make them easy to find again. So when you search for something, you use words that people choose and look only at websites that people think are worth saving. Suddenly you have access to a human-organized bookmark collection that numbers in the millions, but is as easy to use as a search engine.
With Ma.gnolia, that’s really all the work you have to do. Finding by tags makes organizing bookmarks a thing of the past. Since it’s a website, your Ma.gnolia bookmark collection can be reached by you and your friends from anywhere, any time. Also, Ma.gnolia can import bookmark collections from popular browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera 9 and Internet Explorer, as well as from Del.icio.us. However, bookmark importing and exporting can only work for signed-in members.
There are some support and useful tools in this site. You can find the The Ma.gnolia Tutorial, Community Wiki, FAQ, Bookmarklets for marking new sites from your browser, Add-Ons Directory, Ma.gnolia API Documentation and Mirrored API Documentation. In summary, Ma.gnolia is just another new search engine with other features for bookmarking, tagging and labeling. If you find the features interesting, why not check it out and you may find yourself using Ma.gnolia soon. Different strokes for different folks.
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