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When I bookmark http://dbpedia.org/About, del.icio.us suggests "xml" and "programming" as tags. How does it know that the URL relates to these topics?

+6  A: 

This is most likely because other users have tagged that same URL with those tags.

Andrew Hare
+1  A: 

Probably watches for other persons' tags, although I would have wanted it to crawl the URL pages and process its suggestions.

Kensai
+2  A: 

It's definitely based on other users. More "unknown" pages won't have any suggestions, but popular pages that others have presumably bookmarked will have them.

Marc Charbonneau
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it's still based on other users. but i think, if they want stay one of the most used plattforms, they should add another tagging techniques. there are some great ideas in that field - Faviki (based on Wikipedia) or Meaning of a Tag (MOAT).

cupakob