Survey: tagging content becoming popular

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Survey: tagging content becoming popular

phranque

12:27 pm on Feb 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

from BBC News [news.bbc.co.uk]:

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the trend in tagging is growing among US web users.
It found that over a quarter of online Americans - 28% - had tagged content such as a photo, news story or blog.
The business of intelligently tagging content is seen as a crucial element for a next-stage, so-called "semantic web".
But for users of social networking sites it is just an obvious tool to navigate around the sites they visit.

Quadrille

12:07 pm on Feb 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

I was under the impression that tagging had already been so abused, it had gone the way of the meta keyword ...

Is tagging still useful?
Please bear in mind I'm no frequenter of the 'semantic web :)

dkrukovsky

8:21 pm on Feb 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

Quadrille, I'm big fan of tagging. To get you introduced into it, have you tried search on del.icio.us? Try to search for say "airfare" on Google and del.icio.us .

MThiessen

1:49 pm on Feb 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Tagging works in your favor quite well with vbulletin. With linkbacks enabled.

trillianjedi

2:16 pm on Feb 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Is tagging still useful?

I've never found it so, but a mate of mine was telling me that del.icio.us actually changed the way he uses the web, and he's a massive massive fan (he's a techie too).

I would imagine tagging to be of huge benefit to a search engine...