grenade fishing

I love tags. Whether I’m using them productively or not is another matter. I’m not quite sure people know what tags do… Basically, and in very elementary language here, it is the same as keyword search. You enter keywords you want your content attached to when people use those words in their search programs (internal to that site and external on Google). 

Amazon recently launched tags capabilities for their products online. I think this could be useful, though I’m not sure how thousands of people with no interest in search relevancy would help me find my product any better. If anything, I think it may hinder my search process… Here is an example of how tags can be unproductive, though extremely humorous.

This is Kevin Federline’s CD…

These are the tags people have placed on his CD… (Maybe I should give people more credit than they deserve.)

See the whole list at Amazon.com.