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I am finding that the recommended tags are virtually useless.
I, of course, have no idea how Diigo comes up with the recommended tags, but I have found they are almost always completely irrelevant.
would it be possible to change the system, so that the words of the title of the webpage are used to generate the tags, while also leaving out articles (a, the), prepositions (in at...etc), and conjunctions (of, but, etc). In other words, the diigo recommended tags should just be the nouns and verbs of the web page title.
I know this is not perfect, but I think it would be a pretty good start to a much more intuitive recommended tag system.
Of course, this is all in addition to tags that the Diigo community has already added. In my case, this is rarely an option as most of the stuff I bookmark is a first time for diigo.
Thanks for you suggestion. The current tag recommendation system includes some key words from the title, supplemented by other user input. We realize the result may not be perfect some times. We will improve it further.
I agree on the suggested tags, they are fairly useless, and seem to miss even the most obvious keywords
Foe example, on this page:
Feature: Analyze Your Email Usage with Mail Trends
http://lifehacker.com/379328/analyze-your-email-usage-with-mail-trends
only one keyword is suggested, and that is 'analyze', despite 'Email' and 'mail' both being in the title, and being for more plausible (at least they are both nouns).
I have a suggestion, which is to ask would it be possible to incorporate the tags suggested by delicious, as they are fairly comprehensive and useful. E.g. for the above page, the tages are as follows:
article articles communications data email gmail google hacks howto lifehacker lifehacks linux mail programming python statistics tips toread trends visualization
This set of options should cover most possibilities. Also, I do think the suggested tags perform a fairly useful function, in that the keep the tags consistent, both for each user, and globally, making it easier to find items and users of interest. Whereas if they bookmark a page on cars, different poeople could tag it as car, cars, automobile, and so on.
Also, another advantage of strengthening to suggested tags; it eliminates typos in tagging, which either haave to be cleaned up later, or means that the tags are effectively useless.
I agree, the recommended tags don't help much when we are bookmarking.
I think there are 2 main sources for real and useful tags:
1. the metas "description" and "keywords" from the page we are tagging;
2. tags used by other users, if the URL was already bookmarked by anyone;
I guess the second is already used by other social bookmarking systems similar to Diigo;
Strangely the first one is only used by one of this sites that I know, and I know some.
Maybe it is technically difficult or the cost is significant, but I think the only thing involved is to get the page addressed by the URL and parse the metas "description" and "keywords" eliminating the words with less or no semantic interest, just like John Knight had explained .
This matter would be a great difference to other similar sites, I bet :)
Brendan M
Joel Liu
jdr santos
John L. Knight