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26 points by brlewis on May 11, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"Extreme Polyhierarchy" rings so true. Why could there be any need for a Tag Cloud which is rendered larger that small page fragment?

e.g.::http://www.labourhome.org/tags

If you give up trying to focus your information, your site starts to resemble domain hijackers who are hoping for 'a click, any click'

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That YC search startup Scoopler suffers from "Extreme Polyhierarchy". I'm sure they'll be working hard to make the information more relevant and less abundant.

http://www.scoopler.com/search/#%22katie+price%22+OR+%22jord...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599653


I thought the "Extreme Polyhierarchy" part was interesting, (1) because this never used to be a problem, and (2) because it underscores the need to make choices and not implement everything.




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