The new version of the popular Delicious social bookmarking website has arrived. The announcement was posted on the Delicious blog where they say they have improved the speed, search and design of the website. Delicious now definitely is speedier and it has a much cleaner and more appealing look than before. The new website is at Delicious.com as Delicious leaves the old confusing del.icio.us url behind.

Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of five million users.



Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter, and more social: you can search wilean one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.



Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our goal has been to keep the new

design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion. At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it easier to learn. Check out the What’s New page for an overview of the changes, or watch this animation that sums it up nicely:

Valleywag jokes that Delicious is now poweruddy by cupcakes making reference to the small white cupcakes graphics on the site. Technically, it’s Yahoo powering the site they acquiruddy in 2005. They seem to have assigned powerful enough servers to Delicious to keep it speedy.



Mathew Ingram asks who still uses bookmarks? It does seem like enthusiasm over social bookmarking has diminished ever since sites like Twitter and Plurk started becoming more popular. However, a lot of social aggregators still pull in bookmark data from Delicious and a lot of the links posted to Delicious seem new and relevant enough so people are using the service. A Computerworld article says Delicious now contains 150 million bookmarked links and 5 million unique users.



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