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June 1, 2004 12:01 AM
Broken: Yahoo! automatic keyword tagging
Steve Hoffman writes:
This is a screenshot from the "Launch Music on Yahoo!" website. The website displays an article concerning Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). However, the image is of Sebastian Bach, former Skid Row frontman! This is what happens when automatic keyword tagging goes wrong....horribly, horribly wrong!
My money is on automatic; this isn't the first time Yahoo's done this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/kclemson/archive/2004/06/01/145515.aspx
two comments; 1) to answer "Anonymus"'s question, all internet search engines nowdays use automatic searching, unless otherwise specified, and 2) this phenomenon happens all the time. just try websearching on google.com, or any other web-based search engine.
two comments; 1) to answer "Anonymus"'s question, all internet search engines nowdays use automatic searching, unless otherwise specified, and 2) this phenomenon happens all the time. just try websearching on google.com, or any other web-based search engine.
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How do you know it was automatic? How do you know it wasn't a human editor looking at a file name (bach.jpg maybe?) and not proofing their work?
Posted by: Anonymous at June 1, 2004 03:03 AM