On 24/02/06, Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 24, 2006, at 16:04, Michael Stillwell wrote: > > > On 24 Feb 2006, at 16:45, Joshua Schachter wrote: > > > > would it be okay to write a robot that crawled a site and pumped > > every URL it found into delicious, using tags collected from <meta > > name="keyword">? (I thought this would be considered spam.) Has > > someone already written something like this?
(In case the attribution lines here case confusion: I wrote the above, not Joshua.) > The tags and descriptions people use to bookmark a site are > collectively a summary of the message conveyed to them. They're the > consumer's point of view. This feedback is probably more valuable > than a site's ability to jockey for position by pushing their own > agenda into the database. Isn't this what Infoworld is doing though? (http://del.icio.us/infoworld) Or am I misunderstanding? > Anyway, publishers tend to choose bad keywords. Many sites try to > position themselves in search engines by stuffing every conceivable > keyword is the <meta name="keywords"> tag. A real-world example: I fully understand and appreciate the problems with <meta name="keywords">. They keywords of the user "nytimes" (in my example) aren't generated by some random guy, though, they're generated by the NY Times, and I (for example) trust the NY Times. I'm not trusting everyone's keywords; I've opted in (so to speak) to the keywords of "nytimes". I do take Joshua's point that this is perhaps not the sort of things that delicious should be doing. I fully expect that the search engines will offer this facility eventually. (Perhaps there'll be a checkbox for "trust metadata from nytimes?") On the other hand, I also expect that social bookmarking services will merge with search services (and browser/page history) at some point too. --M. -- http://beebo.org +44 78 2118 9049 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
