so i did the assignment.. or discovery tool... to search Learning 2.0 through tags, blog directory and blog posts. the tags and blog directory were v. different. formatting alone (page layout & whatnot) were different and the wee blurbs on the blog directory weren't as helpful as the tag search option which gave a decent synopsis. then doing the keyword search after brought up varied results as well... it just shows that tagging requires an organized way of labelling something.. (also known as folksonomies) to tag an object with the exact phrase which we're searching helps us when the bot web crawls searching for appropriate hits, but if the tagging isn't consistent or up to date, then results can vary... or if the crawler works differently for different search types.. don't know the logistics of it, however.
when i did the second part of the discovery exercise (explore popular searches, etc) it isn't much of a surprise that people are searching popular persons, sport, intrigue, current events *the fires in Cali*, and facebook... ah facebook.. the 'new' uber cool thing to do when social networking on the web.. not surprising at all...
el fin.
adios.
buenas noches.
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