Everyone loves tag clouds

[andygates]

Here's a tag cloud Firefox add-on for Google: it's kinda obvious and kinda nice.  I've found it tasty for refining the obvious away from the chaff, and for spotting connections I hadn't known about ("ooh, they're touring?" etc).  Worth a punt if you love tag clouds as much as everyone else.

What do scarily-named Russian provider Intespei get out of it?  A sniff at every Google search you do, which is nicely marketable data.  :)

Comments

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

So I didn't know what a tag cloud was. I feel rather old now though as reading about them made my brain hurt. Maybe I have maxed my technological youth induced knowledge. Will I be in 30 years the old woman asking the benaflump to fix the new VCR/DVD/Widget of the future when he is home for a vist? Does this pressage the end for me?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Now is a good time to purge all VCR memories. You can always google the instructions if you ever need to use it again. And with space thus freed up, Brain 2.0 works nicely.

[despaer.livejournal.com]

I don't know what a tag cloud is either. And I must admit to being more than a little wary of attaching a bolt-on that allows my journeys through the internet to be recorded. Probably futile worrying about it but why make it easy for them??

[andygates.livejournal.com]

But Google already do it. You're already trusting some random bunch of goons with your searches. Everyone is. :)

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Oh: Tag cloud: A visual representation of the relative importance of a bunch of tags (usually words). Usually, the more important (ie, common) words are presented larger, so it looks like a scatter of fridge-magnet poetry with the big words showing obvious stuff and the little words hinting at directions you might not have expected. Very intuitive.