Google Bookmarks: where your bookmarks are now
Google Bookmarks was a separate, browser-independent bookmarking service — not the same thing as the bookmarks bar in Chrome. Google shut it down on September 30, 2021, after Chrome's built-in sync made a standalone bookmarking service redundant.
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Quick answer
Google Bookmarks no longer exists. The bookmarks you save today live in Chrome: open chrome://bookmarks on a computer, or ⋮ → Bookmarks in the Chrome app, and sign into Chrome with your Google account to see the same bookmarks on every device.
How to see your bookmarks on any device
Chrome bookmarks follow your Google account, not your computer, as long as you're signed in and sync is on.
- Computer: go to chrome://bookmarks, or press Ctrl+Shift+O (Cmd+Shift+O on Mac)
- Android: open Chrome, tap ⋮ → Bookmarks
- iPhone and iPad: open Chrome, tap ⋯ → Bookmarks
- Not seeing them? Check Settings → You and Google, and make sure you're signed into the same account with Bookmarks sync turned on
Google Bookmarks vs. Chrome bookmarks
These were two different products that shared a confusing amount of branding. Google Bookmarks was a web page at google.com/bookmarks where you saved links from any browser, signed into any Google account. Chrome bookmarks are the star icon and bookmarks bar built into the browser itself, synced through your Google account but stored and managed entirely differently.
- Google Bookmarks: a standalone site, browser-independent, discontinued in 2021
- Chrome bookmarks: built into the browser, still active, synced via your Google account
- If you're looking for saved links today, you almost certainly want Chrome's bookmarks, not the old service
If you had a Google Bookmarks account
The export window closed with the shutdown, so there's no official way to recover an old Google Bookmarks library today. If you exported a copy before September 2021, it's a bookmarks.html file, which imports into Chrome, Firefox, Safari or a dedicated manager the same as any other bookmark export.
What replaced it
Chrome's own bookmark sync — signed into your Google account, your bookmarks follow you across every device automatically. It's simpler than the old two-system setup, but it's still folders plus a search box that only matches titles and URLs once your library grows past a few dozen links.
Bookmarks your whole team can use
Chrome sync follows you, not your team. Linkbry is for the links a team shares: one workspace everyone sees, nested folders, multiple tags and a note per link, search across titles, URLs, descriptions and notes, and a Chrome extension that saves a page in one click and inserts saved links into any text box. It imports your existing Chrome bookmarks with their folders intact.
Frequently asked questions
No. Google Bookmarks was a separate, standalone service at google.com/bookmarks, discontinued in September 2021. Chrome bookmarks are the browser's built-in bookmarking feature, and they're still active today.
Sign into Chrome with the same Google account and turn on sync. Your bookmarks appear in chrome://bookmarks within a few minutes.
Not through Google — the service and its export tool are both gone. If you exported your bookmarks as an HTML file before the shutdown, that file still works and can be imported into any browser or bookmark manager.
Google said the feature had been superseded by Chrome's built-in bookmark sync, which covers the same job — saving and syncing links across devices — without a separate service.
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