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The Death of Tag Clouds

Woork 21 Jan, 2010

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Web 2.0 philosophy introduced a new paradigm for the Web that marked a huge change in the approach to design websites then before. Tag Cloud was probably one of the most popular elements which characterized that period. But are they really useful?

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  1. buy r4 21 Jan, 2010

    What tag clouds are useful for is summarising free-text data, for example user comments. Imagine you have 5,000 responses to a request for feedback – run all that text through a cloud generator and you’ll quickly can an idea of the commonly used words or themes. Redundancy can be mediated by careful use of stemming/lemma-isation.

  2. ????? ??????? 22 Jan, 2010

    Useful if its used in category scope. There is no point in unique tags that are mentioned in one article. Disadvantage is text size - normally diffrence between font sizes is too big (carrying popularity info), so cloud takes too much room while having trivial name and usage count info. Another disadvantage is that it links to search results, so it takes more clicks to reach actual article. Thats why most bloggers prefer "most popular" article list instead

  3. sam 23 Jan, 2010

    Never understood the fuss was all about with tag clouds. From an interaction point of view I never found myself searching or clicking on them.

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