Are your bookmarks a mess? Google's pretty sure that they are and so it's working on a new service called Google Stars to help you organize all your bookmarks on Chrome. Although Google Stars will most likely launch at Google I/O, a preview of the service recently leaked online.
The new service lets users star web pages right from the Chrome address bar. Google Stars will then automatically filter the bookmarks into the categories that make the most sense for that web pages' content. Google Stars will learn your patterns and do most of the hard work for you.
However, users can also organize their bookmarks based on categories, such as news, recipes, social media, cat videos, etc. Google Stars also lets you search for new content from the saved web page.
Although all your bookmarks will be private by default, Google has made it easy to share bookmarks. You will be able to choose which folders you want to make public or share as a link with others.
According to Florian Kiersch, a Google+ user who leaked the preview and the concept of Google Stars, the folders will appear as images in a grid formation, making Google Stars both functional and visually appealing. Kiersch said that he believes Google Stars is under heavy construction and may change a lot from what we see in this first preview. Kiersch first discovered pieces of code for Google Stars and other clues about the service in April.
Google will most likely show off Google Stars at its I/O developers' conference on June 25 in San Francisco.
Although Google Stars may start out as just a nifty new way to bookmark sites, it could easily become incorporated into Google search suggestions and further personalize the user experience. Google Stars integration into Gmail might also make it easier to share a specific set of bookmarks with colleagues and friends.
Bookmarking is an old part of the web and one of the few parts that hasn't been updated since its inception. Google Stars might just be the first attempt to take the Bookmark system to the next level.
