The long awaited Mozilla Firefox browser was released today. A friend pointed out how its a great alternative to the brain-dead IE we've been stuck with, but the bookmarking engine is hopelessly stuck in the '90s.

This got me thinking about Google, and their upcoming entry into the browser market. It seems like "smart bookmarks" would be a great opportunity for them to add some usability innovation.

For instance, what if their Page Rank premise was extended to bookmark management? When you bookmark a site, it looks at what categories other Google users categorized their bookmark as? As a side effect, they'd build a web catalog like Yahoo--but it would be more democratic and current by design.

Ideally a bookmark manager should augment your memory by allowing you to mine it in a lot of different ways, including chronologically or even spatially by the original site that referenced you. Wouldn't it be neat to see the browsing relationships of all of your bookmarks?

But perhaps bookmarks are redundant. How many bookmarks do you have but wind up using Google anyway because it's faster? Perhaps the best approach is for bookmarks to go away and instead become a pervasive part of your personalized search results; your very own Page Rank.