Yahoo My Web Tagging & Why (So Far) It Sucks by Danny SUllivan, SEW Blog (June 30)
Sulllivan thinks the tagging at Yahoo's new MyWeb 2.0 sucks - and he's probably right. Mainly he doesn't see much value in using other people's tags (or categories) or spending the time doing it himself. He prefers keyword searching.
"Tagging will help you keep all your My Web content you're saving organized, right? But what happens when you've created hundreds of tags for thousands of pages? Are you going to browse pages? Everyone largely abandoned browsing directory categories ages ago because keyword search was like a warp drive to zip you to what you wanted, as I've explained."
Alternatively, Yahoo could use some automated clustering technology like Vivisimo.
Interestingly, Yahoo which started as a subject directory doesn't intend to stick with the tags. They expect the trust in social networks to be the means of refining search.
Posted by Gwen at July 5, 2005 05:31 PM