• newteevee, Monday, November 23, 2009 2:35 PM

Hulu -- the joint video venture between NBC Universal, News Corp. and Disney -- has taken a step toward crowdsourcing its classification and discovery capabilities, adding the ability for users to add tags to videos. The online video site added a "Tags" tab alongside its "Reviews" and "Discussion" sections, so users can classify video clips by checking a box next to any existing tag, or add their own tags through the "Add Tags" box.

People who have added tags will be able to edit or update them at any time, through the Tags tab in their profile pages. What's more, users can search Hulu's video catalog based on tags that have been added by other people, which could enable more relevant results than what the site's search engine provides.

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