• Mashable, Friday, February 18, 2011 12:08 PM

Delicious users rejoice! Following Yahoo's recent decision to "sunset" the bookmarking service, an opportunistic Google has debuted a tool to import Delicious users' bookmarks to Google Bookmarks. What Mashable calls a "simple importer" takes users Delicious log-in credentials and imports all their bookmarks, while preserving their labels and tags. According to Mashable, Google likely sees the demise of Delicious as the perfect opportunity to take Bookmarks to the next level.

"Bookmarks was launched in 2005, but it's never been a huge hit -- or a money maker -- for the company," it writes. "Last year, Google launched Lists for Bookmarks, a more social feature for bookmarking that put the product into direct competition with Yahoo's Delicious." Rather than shut it down, Yahoo is trying to sell Delicious. Yet, given a saturated market along with Google's new importer, Mashable thinks a sale is now unlikely.

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