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Does The New Delicious Have Enough Juice?
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The new design of the social bookmarking site del.icio.us surely looks more delicious. Moreover they have changed their domain address from del.icio.us to delicious.com.
Why change the domain address?
According to delicious blog there have always been a big confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years eg. “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”, hence moving to a domain name delicious.com will make the peoples life much easier. Point to be noted that the domain change requires a new login cookie, hence you need to re login. The old domain and its entire URL’s will still continue to work.
What has new delicious to offer?
Delicious blog says:
Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of five million users.
Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter, and more social: you can search within one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.
Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion. At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it easier to learn.
Delicious still has a long way to go. When compared with Digg and Stumbleupon it is way below in terms of traffic. Besides that the number of votes that each article on the homepage receives is too quite low when compared with digg.
Delicious users are mainly from countries like USA, Germany, China, UK and India. The recent graph shows that it has a 12% fall in global reach. It has also fallen in Alexa ranking and now it ranks 1,257.
I hope Yahoo! Is not the prime reason behind the fall in its traffic rankings as recently it had annoyed many of their stockholders by declining Microsoft bid. In case if you were not aware then delicious is a California based social bookmarking site. It was founded on November 1, 2003 and was acquired by Yahoo! on December 1, 2005.
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