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* Om Malik ponders the question of whether or not tags (and the people who make them) can 'beat Google at the search game'. I don't think there's a simple answer to that one. In terms of results quality it's obvious Google can get beat, because they are often not that good and rarely are they 'the most relevant'. But I worry that tagging of any kind will succumb to spamming far quicker than algos did. Taggers need identities and reputations, and then I think it will start to work. The other problem is that people search on a lotta lotta subjects, and tags are (and will continue to be) far to narrow in their coverage. * What the heck is Web 2.0? This question keeps coming up. It's just interesting right now, but I have a feeling that pretty soon it's going to matter. Posted by Craig Danuloff at December 25, 2005 2:49 PM | TrackBack