How Would a Company Like Flickr Use Social Tagging on Its

question 154

Multiple Choice

How would a company like Flickr use social tagging on its website?

• A) By applying keywords that do not match user content.
• B) By building a tagging game for customers to participate in.
• C) By allowing users to upload images and tag the images with their own keywords.
• D) By selecting the keywords to associate with each image a customer uploads.

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