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Narain is the founder & CEO for 360 Degree Interactive, a web services firm based in Chennai, India. This blog is about his personal views on Web 2.0, RoR, Social networking,Digital media, interactive advertising, SaaS, Service Oriented Architecture, India Inc, rural education, Web standards, mobile 2.0 and more.

Sunday, December 11

Yahoo! buys del.icio.us

Yahoo! buys del.icio.us, the most famous tagging company on the internet. The move allows Yahoo! to have the complete "tagging" references made by millions of users. This will allow Yahoo! to know the referential tags of millions of news items, blog posts and so on. This gives the "media company" more information & provide improved search results. Google presently dont have a tagging system. Either Google can add tagging system in blogger or buy out any leading tagging sites.Considering the competition, either Digg or Technorati can be bought over in the near future to push more tagging based search results. For now Yahoo! leads this race with 1-0 against Google. The news of the buyout is here

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