tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852028730356570772.post3273957793500208628..comments2023-04-14T08:01:31.630-05:00Comments on Catherine's Corner: Social BookmarkingCatherine R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12294447414092276386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852028730356570772.post-27186521671064794342007-04-30T14:58:00.000-05:002007-04-30T14:58:00.000-05:00I didn't necessarily find that the sites that were...I didn't necessarily find that the sites that were tagged by more people were more useful than others actually. I also did a quick google search comparison and the del.icio.us sites weren't too bad. <BR/><BR/>I did a search for 'polar bears and global warming' (no quotes), in both del.icio.us and google. I found the first page of results in google to be more specific to what I was looking for, while the results in del.icio.us were more generic - about global warming, but they WERE all relavent. Many were only bookmarked by a couple of people. The one tha was booked by 265 was for an article about the response to Al Gore and "An Inconvenient Truth." The article did mention the words polar bear, so it wasn't completely off the mark actually. But, I didn't necessarily find it to be better than the results only marked by 2 people.<BR/><BR/>I don't necessarily think that Social Bookmarking has NO purpose, but my results seem to be more specific to what I'm looking for in greater numbers with google. Maybe this will improve, maybe not. Or maybe my sampling is limited.<BR/><BR/>I think the most value in Social Bookmarking is when groups of people add each other to their networks and share for a specific purpose like a class or people within a particular industry. They are more likely to be able to tag in a manner that you would because they are generally coming from a similar knowledgebase and may add the same types of keywords that you would.Catherine R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12294447414092276386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852028730356570772.post-68325902764494487292007-04-29T17:27:00.000-05:002007-04-29T17:27:00.000-05:00Did you find that the links that were "saved by 1...Did you find that the links that were "saved by 1500 other people" legitimately were more worthwhile than one tagged by only 12 people? Does the voting of the masses serve as a valid peer review process?Poets Onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11880224855001620610noreply@blogger.com