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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
I've seen many situations similar to this. Each book having highly repetitive tags with multiple variations of terms; reminds me of mathematical permutations and not a keyword search.
The thing to keep in mind is these are not knowledge databases, but sales databases. The website's intent is to sell you a product and to do that they provide information to gain your interest based on the widest possible similarity to any search term(s) requested.
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I call this kitchen sink tagging and I'm still waiting for the day that I find the actual words "kitchen sink" as a tag.
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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
Note: To quote Rocky Horror Picture Show, "Time is fleeting". The use of terms to convey time as a keyword/tag is so subjective it's effectively useless. Current, Contemporary, Modern, Today and other such terms are only appropriate once you specify a larger time period - a decade, century or period. For instance "the 80's" could signify any century at all - including ones that didn't happen yet as time travel stories are quite popular.
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This is something I've never really thought about but is really true. I have a number of stories tagged as Modern or Contemporary but something that is Present Day now is out of date in 5-10-20 years. Thank you
@Sabardeyn for making me rethink my tagging scheme.
