Because it's faster to Google something than to look for something in your bookmarks.
A few people will bookmark things. Even fewer of them will ever use those bookmarks. In most cases this will limited to a few sites with weird URLs that will often be for work and these will be on the prominent real estate just below your tabs on Chrome. Anything hidden behind a menu is strictly WORN (Write Once Read Never).
The act of organizing bookmarks in an exercise in building a hierarchical categorization, much like we had in the early Internet with the Yahoo directory and similar. These are never natural to use. The mental model is always imperfect and poorly remembered when you try to use it. It's the same reason "tagging" persists while "directories" don't.
A few people will bookmark things. Even fewer of them will ever use those bookmarks. In most cases this will limited to a few sites with weird URLs that will often be for work and these will be on the prominent real estate just below your tabs on Chrome. Anything hidden behind a menu is strictly WORN (Write Once Read Never).
The act of organizing bookmarks in an exercise in building a hierarchical categorization, much like we had in the early Internet with the Yahoo directory and similar. These are never natural to use. The mental model is always imperfect and poorly remembered when you try to use it. It's the same reason "tagging" persists while "directories" don't.