Tagging In the News

The Associated Press has taken note of tagging.

"Tagging has the potential to change how we keep track of and discover things digital - even whom we meet online. Several startups are banking their futures on it.

"It could be our salvation as we attempt to sift through the growing clutter of data we're amassing on our hard drives and on that growing digital repository that is the Internet."

But:

"Of course, tagging has its drawbacks, and some Webophiles aren't quite convinced it will evolve into the Next Big Thing. ...

"... Once tagging takes off, marketers are bound to add irrelevant tags to hijack you to the latest Viagra ad.

"Warns Danny Sullivan, editor of the online newsletter Search Engine Watch: 'The noise and deliberate manipulation will probably just bring the system into a crashing halt.'"

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