Comments on: Report Said Only 2.3% Chinese Internet Users Use Tags

By: Jeams

Jeams — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:44:32 +0000

tag的力量还未被中国网民认识到

By: SEO in China

SEO in China — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:09:05 +0000

I think most Chinese users just don’t see any use to tags…

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By: Tangos

Tangos — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:40:10 +0000

Sean,

in fact, now some big Chinese internet companies are also start to add tagging into some of their new services, such as Baidu’s Baike, and Sohu’s blog service. But it is still hard for tagging to be adopted by mainstream in short time. My gut feeling is that tagging still will not be widely used in this year, though we will follow the trend that more people will use it.

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Floating Island » 4.1: Tagging — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:34:42 +0000

[...] There also seems to be some debate as to what constitutes tagging. A recent Pew survey found that 28 percent of American internet users have engaged in tagging, but it fails to define what they counted as tagging. 28 percent seems like an improbably high result, especially compared to the reported 2.3 percent tagging rate among Chinese users (who generally tend to be younger and, in my view, more tech-savvy than American users). Again , there’s a lack of information on the methodology used in the China survey. [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:44:38 +0000

Tangos,

Thanks for the post. What is your prediction for the use of tags in China going forward?

In January 2007, a Pew Internet Study found that 28% of US Internet users have used tags to classify content such as photos, blog postings or news stories. They certainly represent the “classic early adopters of technology”, but it seems that mainstream sites like Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc. are starting to emphasize tagging more and users are starting to use them more.

I think Chinese users will also follow this trend as they become more familiar with the concept and its benefits for filtering content. I also think that part of the burden should be put on websites to better explain tagging.

What’s your take?

Thanks,

Sean

Here’s the link to the Pew Study:
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Tagging.pdf

By: Tangos

Tangos — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:12:47 +0000

Hi, Rebecca, based on Baidu’s user base, I guess maybe the most widely-used tagging application is Baidu’s bookmarking service. But we cannot search or browse it by tags, so I have no idea which percentage of its users are using tags.

By: Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:01:52 +0000

Thanks Tangos! What do you think are the most widely-used tagging systems by the small number of Chinese Internet users who *do* use tags?

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