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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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Improbulus

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.

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.