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Advantages of social bookmarking
With regard to creating a high-quality search engine, a socialbookmarking system has several advantages over traditional automatedresource location and classification software, such as search enginespiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such asweb sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of theresource, as opposed to software, which algorithmically attempts todetermine the meaning of a resource. Also, people tend to find andbookmark web pages that have not yet been noticed or indexed by webspiders. Additionally, a social bookmarking system can rank a resourcebased on how many times it has been bookmarked by users , which may bea more useful metric for end users than systems that rank resourcesbased on the number of external links pointing to it.
Social bookmarking and social news allow you to specifically target what youwant to see. Instead of going into a search engine, typing somethingin, and then searching for that needle in a haystack, you can quicklynarrow down the items to what you are looking for.
Because manyof the sites display recently added lists and popular links, you canboth stay current and see relevant information. For example, let's sayyou are interested in learning more about social shopping. You mightsearch for social shopping on one of these sites and come up with twoarticles: one with a hundred votes and one with two votes.
So,what started out as a way to send bookmarks to friends has really growninto social search engines? You no longer need to page throughthousands of results to find a needle in a haystack. Now, you cansimply go to a social bookmarking site, choose the category or tag thatmatches your interest, and find the most popular websites.
Social bookmarking and social news allow you to specifically target what youwant to see. Instead of going into a search engine, typing somethingin, and then searching for that needle in a haystack, you can quicklynarrow down the items to what you are looking for.
Because manyof the sites display recently added lists and popular links, you canboth stay current and see relevant information. For example, let's sayyou are interested in learning more about social shopping. You mightsearch for social shopping on one of these sites and come up with twoarticles: one with a hundred votes and one with two votes.
So,what started out as a way to send bookmarks to friends has really growninto social search engines? You no longer need to page throughthousands of results to find a needle in a haystack. Now, you cansimply go to a social bookmarking site, choose the category or tag thatmatches your interest, and find the most popular websites.
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