The FT has a great article in the paper today, Yahoo could be a winner at internet tag, thinks James Altucher, “You read it here first. The next killer application in the field of internet search engines is tagged searching across multiple social networking sites.”
(You will either need to pay for FT.com or buy the peach paper today and turn to page 10)
Yahoo snuck in the purchases of the grandfather of socially-tagged social bookmark sites, Del.icio.us, and Flickr, the grandmother (thanks to Esther Dyson) of tagged-images and image-tagging sites, and is working feverously on creating a search engine that searches across of of these social networks, social bookmark sites, and even across the self-tagging being done shamelessly on each and every blog, whether you know you’re doing it or not.
I know for sure that blogsearch.google.com sucks and that Google isn’t quite getting the entire tagging thing as well as Technorati, but if Yahoo is able to seamlessly blend SEO with emergent tagging and self-categorization, then they will, in fact, have a killer application.
