Sunday, June 11, 2006

Google and evil

After reading Lore Sjoberg's clever post on Google's mantra, I had a few other thoughts.
  • If you plan to organize the world's data, offering a free (and useful) spreadsheet is a good start.

  • I see to camps developing on search... (1) the Googlites, who say "damn the metatags - long live search algorithms!" and feel data utopia is only reached by math against the data itself -- and the (2) Boxers, who deeply believe we should apply 50 to 60 tags, ONLY from a defined list (created by the King Boxer I guess)
I am probably 90% Googlite, but figure some tagging (with flexiblity for the author to define the tags) is not all bad.