Launched last year, the feature did not prove to be too popular amongst users.
After several months of silence, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has come out in the open, albeit quietly by confirming that it has ripped out the new bookmark manager, and will revert back to the old one.
Apparently, users found the new application, which launched late last year, to be too complicated to understand, let alone know how to operate – and it did not prove to be popular amongst its users.
It did not happened after a long span of experimentation, when Google launched the new bookmark manager last year, complaints started to quickly flow into the Google Product Forums, pointing to the difficulty in using the software, as well as confusing enough to understand it’s working.
Despite the U-Turn, the company has still committed to improving the bookmark experiences of its customer, whereas for those who enjoyed it can install an extension for the application.
While many users have expressed their dismay of how they have been stuck up with the application, for the same reason though, there have been some who are helpful enough to understand what should be corrected.
For starters, most of those who comment on the forum said that the bookmarks manager was slow in operation; it was useless when there are several different layers of bookmarks or folders, more like a tree structure. It seems that some of the “screen grab” images give no idea about what page it is representing.
Some also compared the working of the previous bookmark manager to the new one. As mentioned, speed in the previous one was almost at an instantaneous rate, many things could be seen at once. When bookmarks are listed, the whole URL can be seen, many folders can be seen in the dropdown (in contrast to the folders and sub folders in the new one), and last but not the least, files can be easily shared, as well as exported and imported.
The endnote from consumers is that the search engine giant is requested to not throw half-baked products into the market. From a customer point of view, try to experiment with the products themselves before they roll it out in the market. They should understand that everyone is a tech savvy and do not want to be boggled down with complex products, which can totally throw the product into a disarray.
Google’s stock price ended the previous day at $543, a decline of 0.80% from the previous day.
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