I read on TechCrunch that some people are not happy with Google’s nomenclature regarding “tags” or “labels”. Personally, I prefer to call them “keywords”. I’ve always considered the word “tag” an action verb.
I use the word “tag” everyday. But in this way: “I tagged that photo with these keywords.”
I don’t think this is a serious issue, nor is it one that needs to be debated a ton since people generally understand that “tags” and “keywords” are the same thing. However, I have yet to use or understand Google’s use of “label”.
[tags]google, techcrunch, nomenclature, label, tag, keyword[/tags]
[slug]tag-keyword-label[/slug]
3 Comments
I really think this was something google did because they needed something to spite the whole “folder” idea.
Ie. Marketed like this:
Old way of doing email.
Label goes on a folder. Email goes in a folder.
New way of doing email: skip the folder.
Label goes on an email.
Daniel: Although I use Gmail I rarely use the Web interface. I can see why they’d used labels for email I suppose, but not on Blogger. For some reason labels do indeed fit, in my opinion, with email, but not with blogger.
Like I said though, I don’t think it matters too much.
Ah there I agree 100%. Labels (google tags) do not go with blogs or blogger.
and you are right – I don’t think there’s a big issue here
One Trackback
[...] interface is much better than the old one – except that Google has seemingly taken tags, or labels (see this post for more about labels), and turned them into [...]