Best-bookmarks.com has developed a database-backed site which acts as a search engine-cum-directory of top sites under numerous categories. You click on a JavaScript button marked "Internet" or "Computers" or "Entertainment" or "Sports," or whatever your interest, and find numerous subcategories. Choose the one you want and it takes you to a further "portal"-like page with even more listings.

In other words, it acts like a specialized portal/directory where their choices and *yours* --- they have an "Add Bookmark" link --- are listed.

That's the upside. Now to the problems TechMailings Guy (TMG) found at their site:

1. Many of the main-page category buttons had NO LISTINGS at all, just the notation, "Coming Soon!" TMG personally hates this kind of thing. If you say you have launched the service, have it functional when I get there. "Coming Soon!" is just a euphemism for "Under Construction." Show me the work when you're finished!
2. TMG got a JavaScript Error message on the "Add Bookmark" link. So nothing happened. Highly unprofessional and frustrating for the user.
3. An interesting concept is not necessary a good one.

What I mean by this last statement is that the idea of a bookmarks page is just a variation on the 'Net portal theme. I don't use portals myself.

The friend I mentioned has scores, maybe even a couple hundred, sites in his bookmarks file. What's wrong with that picture is that you and I both know there is no way he visits most of these sites often.

I don't personally add a file to my "Bookmarks" (or "Favorites") unless it is one that I plan to visit *at least* once every couple of weeks, at minimum. I bookmark a file because it has valuable information, or features or services, I feel I need to re-check regularly.

So the problem I find with the Best-Bookmarks.com concept is that the ever-growing database they are setting up will become as daunting as any search engine "results." They will list just too many sites that I don't need to look at in order to find what I want.

Not Recommended.