Technorati launches Related Tags
12Ever wanted to see what posts are related to other posts, what tags are related to others? Now you can! Just check under the Tag description on most tag pages, like this one, or this one, and you’ll see the patterns. Can you smell the emergence?
By the way, check out what Jonas Luster has done to integrate Yahoo’s term extraction service with tags. Awesome. Release the code, Jonas!
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Thanks for the info David. I didn’t realise that related tags were not in fact official until now (as I’ve noticed their display on Technorati’s tag pages for a while and had in fact speculated about them at http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/03/technorati-tags-related-tags-tag.html).
It would be great if Technorati could explain how their related tags work, how they are generated. Clearly it’s not a simple “grouping” association where if A is associated with B, C and D, then B is therefore automatically associated with A, C and D. Even though obviously you can’t give away details, I’m sure I’m not the only person who would be very interested to know what general principles lie behind how Technorati has decided which tags are to be associated with a particular tag.
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Dave – This is a significant step forward. Technorati should publish details and explain the generation and revisions of related. This is like creating the taxanomy structure- so have got to be done very carefully and also it may be worthwhile bringing in different categories of association. One approach could be to create a wiki of related tags.
How should the relationships between tags be defined, and by whom?
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I’m guessing that you apply some weighting to tags which get used on the same pages and use that to create the relations?
It would also be useful to have a mechanism for people to suggest relations, or even hard links. For example there are two tags related to the BBC TV series Doctor Who – “doctor who” and “dr who”. If you use the tag “drwho” it points to “doctorwho” as a related tag (and vice-versa) but if you look up “doctor+who” or “dr+who” the other one doesn’t appear as related.
Technorati adds related tags
Technorati has added a related tag feature. This will suggest related tags. Pictured above is an example of the technology tag which seems to do a pretty decent job. Contextual algorithms can be tricky.
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