Comments on: Yahoo's game of photo tag

Flickr purchase points to radical--and largely untested--theory that could up-end Web search.

Hierarchical tagging system at Consumerpedia.org

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[jamie.p.walsh]

As long as it takes longer to "tag" then to "create" the data....

what is the point. volumes of wiki style search results, which, while they are interesting, are hardly accurate all the time.

Also, it would only be a matter of time before "tag mobs" start hacking and skewing the search results.

Tag Searching

Even though one of the advantages of tagging is that it is "anti-search," there are so many different tags in so many different services that one may actually need a search engine to find the right tags. I saw one at http://www.tagboo.com.