This week's blog post will compare tagged sites with other sites. The task was to enter the same term into the search field of a range of sites and compare the results. The number of results retrieved was very different for each site.
The tagged sites brought up some duplicate sites and some unique sites. A search in a tagged site will only retrieve what has been tagged with that exact term, while other sites with a taxonomy will possibly achieve a wider recall. The number of hits may also depend on the number of users registered to use the site.
I particularly liked using Kartoo. This is a very different site which presented the results visually. It is very similar to the Visual Search option offered by EbscoHost databases.
I also like del.icio.us, it will be great to have a bookmarking facility which is not computer or browser dependent. I have already created an account and added some tags.
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