What Does Bookmark Mean in Yahoo!?

Whether you log onto Yahoo! to browse new pet adoption websites, send family photos across the Web or see if any of your buddies are online, wading into the Internet may seem like an endless flood of online pages. Take advantage of Yahoo! features to bookmark those pages, like a Cub Scout marking trees on a nature hike to ensure his safe way back. In Yahoo!, bookmarking shows parts of the Web you want to come back to and makes it even quicker to do so -- no typing of long website addresses required.

Purpose

When you use Yahoo! as your Internet choice for surfing Web pages, checking email and communicating with others, you're facing millions of choices for Web pages. Trying to get back to a page can be difficult, but Yahoo! offers something to help you retrace your steps. Bookmarks, or in Yahoo! terms "favorites," allow you to single out the page as one you'd like to revisit. With a few clicks, you add the website to a special list that allows one-click navigation back to that page in the future.

Benefits

Bookmarks may be considered something akin to an electronic address book. While it's possible to write down the addresses of websites on a piece of paper and keep it by the computer, the chances of transcribing a few incorrect characters or mistyping them into the address bar are higher than a simple clicking on the bookmark. Also, some websites may have extremely long addresses, especially if you are clicking multiple pages in from the home page, such as clicking the Yahoo! home page, one of its content channels, a link within and a blog posting within that page. With a bookmark, you don't have to remember those four different URLs.

Considerations

There are no negatives to bookmarks in Yahoo!. Bookmarks don't take up bandwidth or memory so having a huge list isn't going to slow down the computer or take up space. At worst, having many Yahoo! bookmarks means a longer time scrolling to click on the wanted bookmark. With more bookmarks, you have a higher probability of clicking on the wrong one, such as the one above or below the one you want, but that's easily remedied by simply re-opening the bookmarks and clicking again.

Action

Creating a bookmark in Yahoo! has nothing to do with cutting a piece of paper and putting it between two pages in a hardcover. Instead, bookmarking in Yahoo! is a quick process of labeling the page as a "favorite." The Yahoo! toolbar comes into play here. After you've settled on the page to label as a bookmark, click the "Favorites" button on the left side of the Yahoo! toolbar at the top of the Internet screen. Choose "Add to Favorites" and select "Add Current Tab to Favorites." The tab will be in the clickable list of bookmarks from that point on until you delete it.