Because of the internet, it’s possible to gather huge amounts of information quickly. You can utilize search engines to gather this information, but it’s not necessarily the best choice. Social bookmarking is an excellent method of gathering information quickly, but not everyone understands social bookmarking.

I’m sure you have found websites that you thought were useful and have bookmarked it in whatever browser you use. That’s the way that social bookmarking works, except that instead of saving the bookmark to your web browser, you save it to a site on the Internet set up to save your bookmarks. Saving it to a social bookmarking site allows you to share your links with friends and family who might also enjoy the resource.

When you bookmark a site in this fashion, you can create public tags that identify the type of content that other users can expect. There are also websites that gather tags and rank sites based on user comments and tags. Tags can be a more useful and meaningful way to search than search engines when looking for information.

Some of the more well-known social bookmarking sites like digg, reddit, stubleupon, and delicious.com are used widely to bookmark and find information based on tags. As sites that are submitted to these bookmarking sites get more recommendations from their users, they move to the top of listings. So based on user popularity, for any topic there may be numerous listings, some with many recommendations and others with only a few. Obviously, the ones with the most recommendations will be the most useful of the listings.

You can also browse through information using categories on social bookmarking sites. There is often a way to sort the listings by most popular, recently added, or by the niche or type of site that it is, such as technology, sports, news, etc.

While social bookmarking began as a simple way to share links with friends and family, it has grown over the years and has become a very useful way to search for information. People often use these sites to stay current on topics that interest them. It’s easy to follow news and trends just by clicking on the categories that interest you and checking out the listings that will be shown from most popular to least popular.

Social bookmarking sites make finding information easier than searching through page after page of results that are often irrelevant in traditional search engines.

Social media has revolutionized the way people use the Internet. How has it done this? People can now rate how valuable information that is provided by a website. With sites like Reddit, Digg and Stumbleupon, there’s less sorting through garbage, since the top rated information is always at the top of the list, unlike the search results of a traditional search engine.

These sites provide news, much like other news sites on the internet. The huge difference is that the users of the site submit the articles they find interesting. Moderators choose the stories that are posted to the front page. Afterward, users are allowed to vote on the stories they like best. Based on the votes, stories are moved up or down in the site rankings.

Many people use these sites because they are able to find relevant information that might be of interest faster. In many ways, these types of sites are becoming more used than search engines by individuals seeking certain information. This is because the votes give them an indicator of the relative value of one article over another when both cover the same topic. In this fashion, social news sites are beginning to gain recognition as intelligent search engines.

One major difference that many people should know about between these sites is how negative votes affect the ratings of stories. For instance, Digg allows users to vote to Digg or bury and article. Enough votes to bury it will get an article killed. Otherwise, the negative votes do not send down voted articles lower in the ranking. Reddit, on the other hand, applies the votes in both directions. Favorable votes get articles ranked higher while negative votes bump them down in the rankings.

In addition to allowing users to vote on the articles to determine their placement on the page, many of these sites allow users to comment on the articles. These comments can develop into a full blown discussion of the information provided in the articles and its relative merits. The comments are often voted on in much the same way as the articles so that more popular comments rise to the top of the comments list.

Social media in general has greatly changed the way people connect on the internet. The evolution of social news sites has impacted the way people gather news about world events and topics of interest to them. Some feature specialized types of information such as news about technology. Others are more general in their offerings.

Using social news sites like Digg, Propeller, and Reddit is impacting how people search for information as well as how they gather it. Because the articles are contributed by other users, many people use these sites to establish themselves as experts in their chosen fields. This contributes greatly to creating a brand for themselves that people can connect with.
Providing interesting content that people find useful helps to build a sense of trust that will help web entrepreneurs succeed in their attempts to drive traffic to their sites.