Constantly Catagorizing New Catagories

As humans we love to organize things and people into lovely little categories. We call some people alpha people (a nice way to say slightly bossy) and others beta people (don't mind doing what the bossy person says). Its part of our psychology and helps us organize and store information in our minds. It's also probably why we all just love google so much.

Google organizes information in accordance with what we are searching for. Google looks at web pages Meta data (how the page describes the information that it displays) and then categorizes it with similar pages. It’s all very impressive but considering how much information is on the internet does that mean that the whole internet is just an infinitely large database? To be honest half the stuff I read online if for entertainment and therefore not very important, so is there a reason to archive all this information? Who decides what can stay and what has to go?

Tagging is also a new way to organize information, but it does come with its own issues. How one person chooses to label something might be at odds with another person. The internet has also given rise to 'crowd sourcing' wherein companies outsource tasks or jobs like developing new technology (like iPhone apps created by iPhone users). Isn't this just free labour? A lazy way to make money off other peoples ideas? I think it is and I think the same for forum moderators. Volunteering is free labour at the end of the day and it doesn't matter what kind of volunteer work it is. As someone who has worked though high school and now university I see volunteering as a great thing to do if you want to, but at the end of the day I still need my paycheck.