Trapping Tags and Conversations - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 197

Flickr is terriic for current events, as I've said before. Try searching for min-
nesota state fair . As of this writing, I got over 700 results!
In late August and early September 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the
Gulf Coast. As of this writing, over 19,000 photos are tagged with hurri-
canekatrina , from pictures of candles and prayers, to radar pictures of the
hurricane itself, to pictures of people living in shelters.
Ater chapters and chapters of trying to narrow your search, you may be get-
ting a little frustrated at trying to come up with tags that match your topic.
If this is the case, try the Explore section of Flickr (lickr.com/explore/).
Here you can explore photos, but you can also use a Flickr feature called
clustering , which groups photos and inds other tags relevant to what you're
searching for. Start with the URL lickr.com/photos/tags/keyword/clus-
ters/ , and replace keyword with the tags you want to search. Try entering
Google again. You get a page that looks like Figure 9.4 .
Figure 9.4
Clusters of flickr tags
related to google.
Notice that the search results are divided into several diferent sets of tags,
some of which you might have anticipated ( GMail , Googlemap ) and some which
you probably didn't ( memorymap , geotagged , mountainview ). If you're having a
diicult time inding tags that focus on what you're looking for, use the clus-
ter feature for some extra ideas. (In addition, you'll ind a list of related tags at
the bottom of regular search results, which may help you too.)