Relevance of Tagging vs Search Engines at effective web ministry notes

filed under Marketing, Strategy by rob on 30Mar06 @ 11:52 am EST

It’s not always the best, but Seth gives an example of tagging working better than a search engine

1 Keith on Mar 30th, 2006 said:

I agree that handbuilt searches can be better. In the same way “best practices” are better than an exhaustive list of practices. However, what is “best” for one person’s way of viewing the world is not always “best” for another person’s. A list of the “best tea shops in town” is very helpful if “town” is where you live, it’s not so good if “town” is 10 timezones away and you need a cup of tea right now! Since there is nothing new under the sun, some of us can remember when the Yahoo directory was THE place to be listed. But as the internet exploded, it could not keep up and many of us chafed when our sites were categorized in ways we didn’t find helpful, because “best” to the yahoo’s at Yahoo wasn’t necessarily “best” for site owners. Google and other true search engines won that victory, but now suffer under 196 million “tea” results! I sure wish there was an easy answer, once and for all! But then we’d be bored!