Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search?

Lots of interesting conclusions in this study about social bookmarking’s role in web search: Tags are present in the pagetext of 50% of the pages they annotate and in the titles of 16% of the pages they annotate. Tags are in context and many tagged pages would be discovered by a search engine (p.8).

This entry was written by Shanta Rohse, posted on April 25th, 2008 at 9:44 pm, filed under Linking Thinking and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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