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Taxonomy is a formal using tired term structure. For example – A deck of cards can be put into color order, reds and blacks, it can also be put into numerically or the shapes on the cards. So technically categorized. Folksonomy refers to categorizations by the user and this is used on online content. E.g. Tags.

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Searching videos on YouTube is simple. The YouTube team has considerably simplified their video search function making it easier for people to perform advanced searches on YouTube without learning any complicated syntax. So the searching line is considered as Taxonomy on YouTube. However, if we want to find video we just need to look at categories on YouTube. The categories are considered also to Taxonomy. The most common categories are music, sports, gaming, movies, TV shows, news or category such as Popular. The funny thing of the category (popular) is that it’s basically Taxonomy but people made it also as folksonomy.

Folksonomy is used on YouTube so it is easier for the users to find the content which they are looking for. On YouTube tags are used so the search is more effective the content can be found straight away, instead of flickering through the pages, due to the popular tags. It is also used as categorization because the user who is uploading the video should say who is in the video or who created it. For example, on YouTube if you do a collaboration with another person you should say who is in the video, that way when searching for someone else’s video and they were in another video it will come up as well due to the tags used. The likes and dislikes are also folksonomy because the user can disable these buttons for their video’s and they can also enable them.

YouTube’s internal classification system has allowed users to make their content more accessible and easily found. For example YouTube was bought by Google in 2006, and operates as one of its subsidiaries. Therefore when creating a YouTube channel, it will ask you to sign in with Goggle, allowing your account information from Google+ to be transferred. Keeping this consistency through your social networks will allow you to be become more recognisable, and your content more likely to be viewed. Along with linking in profiles, YouTube asks you to add links to your channel as well as an automatic share to other social media platforms when you post a new video. This is a direct way of building up your social media presence.