Similicio.us
Posted on March 24, 2006
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Via Waxy, Similicio.us helps the discovery of related content by checking del.icio.us tags and seeing what other content (represented by a URL) has been similarly tagged. Apparently it also uses the EasyUtil engine, although it isn’t clear to me how that fits into this…I guess it uses del.icio.us tags as a proxy for similarity, and then uses EasyUtil to refine this somehow. I need to grok EasyUtil properly to answer this question.
In any event, I found it interesting because it seeks to achieve the same goal as Tagalyzer but uses a different method…
While Similicio.us checks del.icio.us to see what tags have been used to categorize an article, and then returns other articles similarly tagged, Tagalyzer uses Yahoo’s content analysis API to identify keywords, and then various APIs to find related content for those keywords (including the del.icio.us API).
The question this begs is the difference between keywords and tags. Are they two different things? ‘Keywords’ are words from the article which the Yahoo! content analysis considers to be important from a search perspective. Tags on the other hand may or may not be words from the article itself, but they do represent the article content or themes as perceived by the individual. I’d expect considerable overlap, but there is a subtle difference and it most certainly has an impact on relevance and usefulness.
Thinking about it in these terms Tagalyzer may have been poorly named, conflating ‘keywords’ and ‘tags’. But then again who really cares. I’d just be keen for some feedback about Tagalyzer. Useful or a load of bollocks?
By way of a demo, here’s the tagalyzer results for the Jesse James Garrett article which Similicio.us also uses as a demo.
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