Can social bookmarking improve search?
Categorised under: Enterprise 2.0, Information architecture, Search tools
Daniela Barbosa explores the question: can social bookmarking improve search? To quote:
“Bookmarking Improve Web Search?” includes eleven experiments using del.icio.us designed to evaluate “different aspects of social bookmarking and their impact on web search”. The main end results lead to the issue of needing critical mass which is still not here- the paper’s authors estimate that only about on tenth of the web has been bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us and therefore (at least when using only this domain) tagging is not yet ready to make a significant impact on search results.
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