Tags - why is it interesting and doomed

Tag is a very interesting thing. Its power lies in the lack of power of current content analysis technologies. We don’t have a program to analyze an image or an audio or a video. Thus tags allows people to mannual apply "meaning" to a piece of content, thus, make it searchable.

Tag is the whitebox version of the search. You define it, you get it. Current search is more like you define it, and you use SEO, you might get it.

Again, it has all the problems of current search engine. Tag Spam is bound to happen. After watching blogs are filled with porn and junk comments, I am waiting, sadly, for the first tag spam to occur.

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