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Figure 9.1 popular and recent additions to del.icio.us.
If you ind that your searches aren't returning many results, get more cre-
ative. Since tags are oten used one at a time, someone might create a tag by
putting two words together.
For example,
“GoogleAPI”
is a legitimate tag in the Del system, as is
“weight-
loss”
. If what you'd like to search for is usually expressed as a phrase, search
for it as one tag. And as you can see from the Google example, you can also
take a common word and experiment to see if it has any derivatives.
You can also do multiple tag searching as well. Just put both tags in the URL
separated by a plus sign (+). So entering the following URL locates resources
that have been tagged with both Yahoo and Google:
http://del.icio.us/tag/yahoo+google
If you're having trouble deciding what to look for, do a couple of searches
for tags that generally describe your topic. Notice on the right of the results
page a list of related tags that may help prod your brain.
Del tag searches are simplicity to trap. Notice at the bottom of each page of
search results a familiar orange logo. hat's a link to the RSS feed for this
tag search. here are two things you have to watch out for when trapping
with del.icio.us. Because Del searches are so easy to monitor, and it's so easy
to do the general searches that are diicult to do elsewhere, you might ind
yourself tempted to generate and gather lots and lots of RSS feeds. Before
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