On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:35 PM, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:

Indeed. Remember that the audience for this is not people interested
in ontological structure - they already have the category tree. It's
for the casual user to type in a few words they're thinking of. Think
something like Getty Images. "Commons is sorta like Getty Images
except it's all free and the search sucks."

Well said, Sir! Meaningful search is impossible without tags or keywords. And this won't be good only for the general audience, but also for Commoners and Wikipedians. Searching on Commons is a painful experience,a nd tags are the best solution.
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Regards,

Orionist