In my keyword search, I found that the qualifiers made quite a difference (no surprise there!). Searching for 'All of the Words', it located 164 entries. No entries were found for the 'exact phrase.' There were 722 blogs about education (by any authority and in English) and 722 results in the URL search. There were 27 found in the Tag search.
Tagging is a valuable tool because it allows the user to narrow the search for information. Just as qualifiers (i.e., all of the words, some of the words, exact phrase, etc.) help to locate the right information, tags confine the search to blogs, sites, bookmarks, etc. that have the same tags. Technorati can help an educator because it provides so much information about blogs.
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