Yahoo has revamped Delicious, saying the site for storing, describing, and sharing web bookmarks is faster, easier to use, and has better search abilities.

The speedup comes from a new server system that's snappier and more reliable, Yahoo said on its Delicious blog on Thursday in the US. "You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of 5 million users," the company said.

Yahoo is also re-branding the service from "del.icio.us" its old name, to just plain old Delicious.

"We've seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of 'del.icio.us' over the years (for example, 'de.licio.us', 'del.icio.us.com', and 'del.licio.us'), so moving to delicious.com will make it easier for people to find the site and share it with their friends," Yahoo said. The name change also means users will have to log in again.

The older Delicious limited descriptions of bookmarks to 255 characters, a cap that gave some appeal to rivals such as Ma.gnolia, but the new Delicious raises it to 1,000 characters.

Though Yahoo is working to unify its profiles, Delicious accounts are still separate from those at Flickr and Yahoo Mail.

Delicious founder Joshua Schachter left Yahoo in June.