Tagging is the Web 2.0 version of adding metadata to web content, but with an interesting user-generated twist that the earliest forms of metadata lacked.
A W3C recommendation document defined a set of meta tags for web content, including the "keywords" tag. This tag allowed a content owner to add additional descriptive keywords, specifically for the benefit of search engines, that wouldn't be seen by searchers or users who accessed a web page directly in a browser.
Tagging is the Web 2.0 version of adding metadata to web content, but with an interesting user-generated twist that the earliest forms of metadata lacked.
A W3C recommendation document defined a set of meta tags for web content, including the “keywords” tag. This tag allowed a content owner to add additional descriptive keywords, specifically for the benefit of search engines, that wouldn’t be seen by searchers or users who accessed a web page directly in a browser.
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