Comments on: Searching Folksonomies http://blog.iandavis.com/2005/08/searching-folksonomies blog.iandavis.com Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:19:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: Silkworm Blog http://blog.iandavis.com/2005/08/searching-folksonomies/comment-page-1#comment-182 Silkworm Blog Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:37:25 +0000 http://iandavis.com/blog2/?p=864#comment-182 <strong>Why Tagging Is Expensive</strong> On the surface tagging seems to offer a new paradigm of organising information, one that reduces the cost of entry and so enables a long tail of participation to emerge. I've come to realise that the cost isn't removed, instead... Why Tagging Is Expensive

On the surface tagging seems to offer a new paradigm of organising information, one that reduces the cost of entry and so enables a long tail of participation to emerge. I’ve come to realise that the cost isn’t removed, instead…

]]> By: Otis Gospodnetic http://blog.iandavis.com/2005/08/searching-folksonomies/comment-page-1#comment-181 Otis Gospodnetic Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:46:34 +0000 http://iandavis.com/blog2/?p=864#comment-181 Ian, have a look at Simpy, and you will change your mind about bookmarks, tags, and the ability to quickly find a link when you need it. Simpy supports full-text search (like Google), it supports fielded search (like Google), it supports + and - operators and quotes for phrase searches (like G...), AND, OR, and NOT, wildcard queries, and fuzzy queries. Can't do that with del.icio.us. Simpy also let's you search the full-text _content_ of the bookmarked page (not just tags, titles, etc., not just meta-data). With Simpy you won't have problems with webservice vs. webservices vs. web services, vs. web-services. Note that two-word tag there - "web services". Can't do that with del.icio.us. I hope you give it a try. You can import your del.icio.us links into Simpy, too. Have fun! Ian, have a look at Simpy, and you will change your mind about bookmarks, tags, and the ability to quickly find a link when you need it. Simpy supports full-text search (like Google), it supports fielded search (like Google), it supports + and – operators and quotes for phrase searches (like G…), AND, OR, and NOT, wildcard queries, and fuzzy queries. Can’t do that with del.icio.us.

Simpy also let’s you search the full-text _content_ of the bookmarked page (not just tags, titles, etc., not just meta-data).

With Simpy you won’t have problems with webservice vs. webservices vs. web services, vs. web-services. Note that two-word tag there – “web services”. Can’t do that with del.icio.us.

I hope you give it a try. You can import your del.icio.us links into Simpy, too. Have fun!

]]> By: Aaron Johnson http://blog.iandavis.com/2005/08/searching-folksonomies/comment-page-1#comment-180 Aaron Johnson Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:40:53 +0000 http://iandavis.com/blog2/?p=864#comment-180 fwiw: I use del.icio.us the same way (I like the fire and forget analogy, reminds me of my childhood dreaming of flying F-14's with Tomahawk missiles..) and the way I've resolved the 'not being able to find what I bookmarked 6 months ago' problem was by writing a script to grab my links from del.icio.us on a nightly basis using the del.icio.us API and then post them to my blog. In a couple days (weeks?) I should be able to google my own site: site:cephas.net/blog/daily_links/ google maps AJ fwiw: I use del.icio.us the same way (I like the fire and forget analogy, reminds me of my childhood dreaming of flying F-14’s with Tomahawk missiles..) and the way I’ve resolved the ‘not being able to find what I bookmarked 6 months ago’ problem was by writing a script to grab my links from del.icio.us on a nightly basis using the del.icio.us API and then post them to my blog. In a couple days (weeks?) I should be able to google my own site:

site:cephas.net/blog/daily_links/ google maps

AJ

]]> By: Elias Torres http://blog.iandavis.com/2005/08/searching-folksonomies/comment-page-1#comment-179 Elias Torres Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:31:03 +0000 http://iandavis.com/blog2/?p=864#comment-179 Ian, I wrote a C# plugin to GoogleDesktopSearch that crawls .xml files like RSSBandit's cache and adds them to GDS for indexing. I haven't used it for a while now, but I might be able to bring it back to life if you are interested, unless of course there's a plugin that does it already. Elias Ian,

I wrote a C# plugin to GoogleDesktopSearch that crawls .xml files like RSSBandit’s cache and adds them to GDS for indexing. I haven’t used it for a while now, but I might be able to bring it back to life if you are interested, unless of course there’s a plugin that does it already.

Elias

]]> By: Ryan Shaw http://blog.iandavis.com/2005/08/searching-folksonomies/comment-page-1#comment-178 Ryan Shaw Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:37:19 +0000 http://iandavis.com/blog2/?p=864#comment-178 What you describe already exists--it's called <a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/" rel="nofollow">My Web 2.0</a>. I imported my 3,000 del.icio.us bookmarks into it a couple of weeks ago, and now when I search on Yahoo I see my bookmark (and my social network's bookmark) results at the top. So great... I'm finally getting some use out of all those bookmarks, and so are my friends and co-workers. I haven't used Google since. (Full disclosure: I work at Yahoo, but I used Google for daily search until My Web 2.0 was released.) What you describe already exists–it’s called My Web 2.0. I imported my 3,000 del.icio.us bookmarks into it a couple of weeks ago, and now when I search on Yahoo I see my bookmark (and my social network’s bookmark) results at the top. So great… I’m finally getting some use out of all those bookmarks, and so are my friends and co-workers. I haven’t used Google since. (Full disclosure: I work at Yahoo, but I used Google for daily search until My Web 2.0 was released.)

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