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# Tagging
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/tagging/
- Published: 2005-05-27T18:34:24.000Z
- Updated: 2005-05-27T18:34:24.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

For those puzzling over tags and tagging there is a useful entry on The Search Guy’s WebLog:

> Here’s an interesting fact upon which I’ll base the rest of my argument: people are horribly inconsistent when assigning keywords to documents. If you give two people the same document and ask them to assign a set of keywords to describe it, then the sets of keywords that they assign will agree only about 20% of the time. This was one of the problems that lead to the development of full text indexing systems. If we couldn’t choose a few keywords from a document, we would use *every* word in the document as a keyword! \[[The Search Guy’s Weblog : Weblog](https://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/searchguy/20050513?ref=lorcandempsey.net#tags%5Fkeywords%5Fand%5Finconsistency)\]