Google Bookmarks might be shut down totally on September 30. A banner has been put up on the Google Bookmarks web site that mentions that the service will now not be supported by Google after the talked about date. The service has not been utilized by many customers because it was launched in 2005. Notably, Google additionally talked about that customers’ browser bookmarks and starred places on Google Maps won’t be affected by the shutdown on Google Bookmarks. These bookmarks will be saved externally if required.

The discontinuation of the Google Bookmarks service was noticed by Killed by Google and shared on Twitter. When visiting the bookmarking web site, Google shows a message stating “After September 30th 2021, Google Bookmarks will no longer be supported.” It additionally mentions that customers can save their bookmarks by clicking on “Export bookmarks.” Head here to see if in case you have any bookmarks saved.

The Google Bookmarks service was fairly superior for when it was launched in 2005. It supplied a cloud storage service for customers to save lots of their bookmarks together with annotating options – notes and labels – that helps in looking and sorting knowledge saved on the web site. Additionally, there was additionally a JavaScript-powered bookmarklet that permit customers shortly and simply save bookmarks from a browser.

If customers discover a ton of information on the Google Bookmarks web site that they did not save, it’s probably that the information was saved by a Maps app. It can be probably that Google might have been synchronising or could also be partially storing Google Maps knowledge onto the web site. Notably, solely the starred places from Google Maps have been saved on the web site.

It can be value noting that customers’ Maps knowledge won’t be misplaced as a Google spokesperson confirmed that “Starred Locations in Google Maps aren’t going anywhere. All of your starred places remain intact, and you’ll still be able to save places to a list just like you always have.”