Randomness

In my previous post I addressed the topic of what usefulness a tag cloud could have for your site. I concluded that they serve little purpose for visitors, as intuitive navigation is likely to be the most user friendly way visitors will find the content they are looking for.

Having said that, site based tag clouds are not the only visual search tool on the web. There are also web wide search technologies that display the results in a tag cloud-like view. The results give you a quick overview of the weight of each result represented by the size of the phrase; the larger the text, the more results there are that include that phrase.