eHub Interviews RawSugar
What is RawSugar? "RawSugar is a social search engine powered by member?s knowledge, where search is accelerated by guiding results with member-designated tags. We?re an online community with over 135,000 tagged URLs shared in the two months since opening our public beta."
Tags are one step closer to a manageable, user-centered Web. But its not the end all folks.
"Our guiding vision is that adding scalable, explicit human knowledge, using tags, will ultimately revolutionize web search!"
Uh ... no.
RawSugar, if you're lucky, you'll be an internet footnote in 2006. Tagging will not bring the Web together. Why? Because the world use different tags for what may appear to be similar items. Maybe everyone needs to use a schema of some kind. No. The engine that can take those tags, how they relate to each other and the content and make sense of it all will be on tops. My money's still on Google at this point.
Emily Chang - eHub Interviews
Tags are one step closer to a manageable, user-centered Web. But its not the end all folks.
"Our guiding vision is that adding scalable, explicit human knowledge, using tags, will ultimately revolutionize web search!"
Uh ... no.
RawSugar, if you're lucky, you'll be an internet footnote in 2006. Tagging will not bring the Web together. Why? Because the world use different tags for what may appear to be similar items. Maybe everyone needs to use a schema of some kind. No. The engine that can take those tags, how they relate to each other and the content and make sense of it all will be on tops. My money's still on Google at this point.
Emily Chang - eHub Interviews
posted by Mike Atwell at 12:12 AM
2 Comments:
To be fair, you can choose tags that others have created and used. As you type your tags, a list of other same and similar tags appears with an indicator of popularity. This does help to "unify" the Web with a common or agreed on set of tags.
Tagging downside #1: It takes time to tag a site especially if you like to use multiple tags.
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