Tags

The use of tags allows you to select a subset of the sites from big Maigret DB for search.

Warning

Tags markup is still not stable.

There are several types of tags:

  1. Country codes: us, jp, br… (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2). A country tag means that having an account on the site implies a connection to that country — either origin or residence. The goal is attribution, not perfect accuracy.

    • Global sites (GitHub, YouTube, Reddit, Medium, etc.) get no country tag — an account there says nothing about where a person is from.

    • Regional/local sites where an account implies a specific country must have a country tag: VK → ru, Naver → kr, Zhihu → cn.

    • Multiple country tags are allowed when a service is used predominantly in a few countries (e.g. Xing → de, eu).

    • Do not assign country tags based on traffic statistics alone — a site popular in India by traffic is not “Indian” if it is used globally.

  2. Site engines. Most of them are forum engines now: uCoz, vBulletin, XenForo et al. Full list of engines stored in the Maigret database.

  3. Sites’ subject/type and interests of its users. Full list of “standard” tags is present in the source code only for a moment.

Usage

--tags us,jp – search on US and Japanese sites (actually marked as such in the Maigret database)

--tags coding – search on sites related to software development.

--tags ucoz – search on uCoz sites only (mostly CIS countries)

Blacklisting (excluding) tags

You can exclude sites with certain tags from the search using --exclude-tags:

--exclude-tags porn,dating – skip all sites tagged with porn or dating.

--exclude-tags ru – skip all Russian sites.

You can combine --tags and --exclude-tags to fine-tune your search:

--tags forum --exclude-tags ru – search on forum sites, but skip Russian ones.

In the web interface, the tag cloud supports three states per tag: click once to include (green), click again to exclude (dark/strikethrough), and click once more to return to neutral (red).