Can a relatively small network of web users tagging and voting on web pages create more relevant search results than Google`s calculation of the citations on billions of web pages? If the the goal is to provide the most relevant results on anything someone could type into a search engine, the answer is clearly no. However, there may be some interesting exceptions for certain types of searches. For example, Digg.com`s voting system does seem to make it easier to find news that`s worth reading within the topics they`ve tackled so far, and it seems like it will effectively scale to other topics. Del.icio.us does a relatively good job identifying must-read content in specific subjects using shared bookmarks.
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