Ma.gnolia’s adding to groups functionality being separate from making a new bookmark is infuriating, especially when you are convinced the option just *has* to be there and you just aren’t seeing it.

Quicksilver is an incredible app, super powerful, but has a pretty decent learning curve beyond the most basic of functions. Beautiful, yes—intuitive? Not in my opinion.

Paul D: I spent a couple of hours importing my bookmarks and making a go of it, but my biggest issue was that it’s too slow. Pretty doesn’t mean much in this space, in my opinion. (and I love a pretty site as much as the next person!) Adding a bookmark to your own list, plus to a group takes way too long and changing tags en masse would take forever. I changed up all of my tags in del.icio.us in about 20 minutes; can’t seem to find that function in Ma.gnolia. Like you said though, I’m sure we’ll be seeinga lot of new features over the next couple of months.

And it’s not even like these two are the only social bookmarking sites out there… :)

Magnolia seems to start with a nice set of features (it’s already powering my link roll), and I expect that new features and APIs will probably be coming soon if the developers are keen on taking over a portion of the social bookmarking market.

I completely agree with you on the specialized searches though; Flickr for photos, etc. I’ve had to switch to this strategy as well because the results are so much more accurate.

Congrats on the site, hopefully you’ll get even better (such as bookmarking and adding to a group at the same time!) and the results will contain “the best of it”.

But I did want to speak to the thoughts about us being your search engine. It’s true, we think we’re building a good tool to aid search. But search is something that we turn to different services for different specialities. If I look for a photo, I go to Flickr and not Google Images, because the former just works better. When I need to find a document, it’s Yahoo or Google. They do that thing really well. When it’s torrents, it’s Pirate’s Bay or ISO Hunt. And so on.

So what I’m getting at is that we’re a place to start a lot of searches, like interest-based searches, but we don’t expect to be the only search engine in someone’s online life. The web’s a place where you can have some laughs and unexpected discoveries just looking at a lot of crap, but we want to be the place you go to for the best of it. What’s crap and what’s great – that’s the fun part because the members decide.

Thanks again for checking us out and for sharing some thoughts on how we’re shaping up.