Furl (from File Uniform Resource Locators) was a free social bookmarking website that allowed members to store searchable copies of webpages and share them with others. Every member received 5 gigabytes of storage space. The site was founded by Mike Giles in 2003 and purchased by LookSmart in September 2004. Diigo (a web annotation, social bookmarking & research tool website) bought it from LookSmart in exchange for equity. Furl enabled members to bookmark, annotate, and share web pages. Topics were used to categorize saved sites, similar to the tagging feature of other social websites. Additionally, a user could write comments, save clippings, assign each bookmark a rating and keywords (which are given greater weight while searching), and have an option of private or public storage for each topic or item archived. More information...
According to PR-model, furl.net is ranked 834,153rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 75,267th in Japanese Wikipedia.
The website is placed before uma-channel.jp and after expatcairo.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
