Week 9 Social Tagging

This could be a good way of creating and managing bookmarks. There are benefits in being able to choose suitable tags according to personal preference rather than from a specified list. It is also a good option to be able to identify other web sites by searching using the same tags. A problem may be the personal choice of tags because it may be difficult to select the appropriate term that others have used for a particular topic. This would make tag searching similar to keyword searching on Google or a library journal index in that all syonyms would need to be considered carefully. The ability to link to other web resources using tags of others could be an effective way to construct a list of web sites on the searchers' specialties.