Jeffrey C. Long

I posted this so you would have the full context of the quote.

The significant part is contrasting a google search for a topic with looking at the recent tags in del.icio.us. Try it yourself. Search in google for Neil Gaiman and then go to http://del.icio.us/neilgaiman and see which results are more interesting.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002206710_paul14.html

Del.icio.us creator Joshua Schachter, who chose the site’s name because early on “there was some focus on good URLs tasting good,” calls del.icio.us a “social bookmarks manager.” But the site’s implications go much further. In the still largely untamed frontier of Web information management, tagging could ultimately play a far more useful role than even the most sophisticated search utilities.

The reason: Categorization fights the tyranny of infoglut. Compare a Google search on folksonomy with the del.icio.us tag and you quickly fathom the advantages of tagging for learning about a given topic.

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