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

[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.