The Next Big Thing In Searching

In The Next Big Thing In Searching, Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica E. Vascellaro reports on “tagging”.

To quote: “Tagging addresses a common complaint of many Internet users--that searching is often clumsy and inefficient. Web surfers often must sift through multiple pages of search results to find what they are looking for. And retrieving the best sites a second time often means redoing the search or trolling through an unorganized list of sites that you have haphazardly saved in a ‘favorites’ folder.”

Vascellaro points out the benefits of tagging, saying that it can help “cut through the online clutter to deliver more relevant bits of information...it also makes it easier to find desired information again.”

Read the article.

Source: Wall Street Journal, “Personal Journal” (section D1), Tuesday, January 24, 2006.

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