One problem is that folksonomy-based ratings can be manipulated just as easily as inbound linking footprints. This didn't seem like a big deal to me at the time, as it was in less-trafficked areas and nothing that was competing with me.
Why we need librarians, or tagging vs folksonomy, some explanations, Librarian.net When we see Latin America, we see growth," Alonso said. In the last 12 months, Latin America has become a number-one priority for Google.
Why we need librarians, or tagging vs folksonomy, some explanations, Librarian.net Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
But for this to work, there will be a lot required of users and the jury is still out on the sustainability and scalability of the "folksonomy" strategy, being pushed strongly by Yahoo throughout its product line.
Even developing their own MyWeb 2.0 (tag, save, share service) and the Yahoo 360 set of services, Yahoo still wants more assets in the community building, tagging, and folksonomy arena. Accordingly, we've learned that del.icio.us has now been...
Even folksonomy enthusiasts will be happy since it's possible to "tag" your Searchrolls for better retrieval. For the past few weeks I've had the chance to test out and create several focused and targeted search engines (based URLS I specified...
These days there's also lots of interest in folksonomy development as seen at del.icio.us and Flickr. As web and other databases grow larger and the amount of non-web info (email, chat, spreadsheets, etc) in our lives continues to proliferate...
Again, my reason for sharing is not to say that one specific tool or method (controlled vocabulary vs.folksonomy) are better than the other but rather to introduce resources you might not know about and perhaps promote some thought and discussion.
