What is a tag? What is tagging?
A relevant keyword that is associated with information like a blog entry, video, map and/or photo is called a tag. To be able to classify keyword-based search of information, tagging is used.
Creating tags to categorize contents according to the key words is one of the more popular ways to index important topics. Tag clouds are often used to be able to visualize the contents in a certain site. Tagging makes it easy to have posts found by other people who either made thee posts or found by people looking for these key words. Finding related content is now easier with the use of tags.
Examples of sites that use tags are
Is it any easier to find relevant information by tagging?
Web-based communities, mostly blogs, are able to label, tag and share information with others who may have written about the topic/tag. Even those who do not blog but read blogs, searching for particular topics/posts/keyword/tags would be able to see the posts categorized, if there is a system of categorization made.
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