Week 6 - Technorati Tags

http://technorati.com/help/tags.html

There is a controversy going on about Technorati Tags. In the following website http://www.intuitive.com/blog/technorati_tags_good_idea_terrible_implementation.html
Dave Taylor wrote about his dilemma while trying to write tag entries for General Motors. He could not figure out which special keyword tag to use in his blog entries. Should he use gm, GM, generalmotors, general motors, General Motors, GM Corporation, etc…?
Dave suggested that Librarians are very familiar with this problem with keyword searches that are not standard.

Another site http://gigaom.com/2005/08/02/the-dark-side-of-technorati-tags/ sees Technorati as spam-blog that links any tags put in blogs back to Technorati’s site. When I tried to do this exercise Technorati’s site was down and I received the following message; brb Blackout! Our power is down. Technorati will be back up soon. I will have to form my own opinion as soon as I get to visit the site.

Well I did get back to Technorati's site and I saw that almost the first thing I read on Technorati's site was that one did not have to link back to Technorati site. Technorati said that one can link to any web page that ends in a tag. Example: Gravity which links back to Wipedia's site, so If that is true, what was the information above about? Not sure.

However, I do understand Dave Taylor's position about keyword type tags.