[MaulingMonkey]

> Everything I need is a simple URL (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) or a quick Google search away.

I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads. I can't google stuff that's useful to a topic, but that I've forgotten about. Webcomics often have terrible search indexes - and even navigation - so I'll bookmark my place when archive binging exactly as I'd use a physical bookmark. I bookmark-bar things I open so frequently (JIRA views, trello boards, etc.) that I don't even want the overhead of googling / typing in the url. I bookmark difficult to google topics - e.g. I still can't re-locate the win8 user you need to grant read permissions to, to allow Win8 AppX/WinRT programs to bypass the sandbox to read files (so you don't have to pack game assets into each .appx build).

But I don't bookmark things I merely access quite frequently, like HN ;)

> If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be searchable forever.

Too much friction.

[mintplant]

> Webcomics often have terrible search indexes

Side note, OhNoRobot [0] has full transcript search of 2000+ webcomics.

[0] http://ohnorobot.com/

[MaulingMonkey]

I sometimes manage to get that to coax a broken link to e.g. threepanelsoul, which at least gives me the title to try and further search for.

Sometimes.

[sah2ed]

Would have bookmarked your link :) except that it doesn't seem to index xkcd comics.

I tried "xkcd duty call" and it gave no results [0] while Google lists the comic as the first result for the same keywords.

[0] http://ohnorobot.com/index.php?s=xkcd+duty+call&Search=Searc...

[rocqua]

I'd say XKCD is a special case. Considering the "There is always a relevant XKCD" meme, I think google has a pretty decent grasp of what terms relate to what XKCD comic. Not to mention the transcripts and explanations of explainxkcd.com.

[sah2ed]

Another possible explanation is that Google's search engine is exhibiting, due to the lack of a better term, a form of "transference" [0].

Google engineers are huge fans of XKCD as is evident from Randall Monroe's well attended talk at Google some time back. In my mind, his talk was easily one of the most attended talks, second only to Linus Torvalds talk on Git.

[0] I'm sure there is a standard term for software exhibiting biases held by its authors when making decisions on behalf of users.

[taneq]

> I can't google NDAed documentation or forum threads.

You should keep a full local copy of that sort of thing anyway, the original might disappear.

[MaulingMonkey]

All the local archiving in the world won't help me download new SDKs, find updated documentation, new changelogs, see active replies to ongoing queries, maintain our own NDAed documentation, ...