A tag, ie a descriptive word or phrase. Entities may be tagged by users, and later returned by a
queries for that tag. Tags can also be used for ranking results (frequency), photo captions,
clustering, activity, etc.
See Also: Jeffrey Zeldmans blog post on tag clouds for a more in-depth description.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ccode\u003eCategory\u003c/code\u003e class represents a tag, which is a descriptive word or phrase that can be applied to entities for various purposes like querying, ranking, and clustering.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThis class implements \u003ccode\u003eSerializable\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eComparable<Category>\u003c/code\u003e, and inherits from \u003ccode\u003ejava.lang.Object\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ccode\u003eCategory\u003c/code\u003e class provides methods to compare categories (\u003ccode\u003ecompareTo\u003c/code\u003e), check for equality (\u003ccode\u003eequals\u003c/code\u003e), retrieve the category string (\u003ccode\u003egetCategory\u003c/code\u003e), and get its hash code (\u003ccode\u003ehashCode\u003c/code\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eIt also has a constructor \u003ccode\u003eCategory(String category)\u003c/code\u003e that takes a string parameter to create a category.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe class includes a static field, \u003ccode\u003eserialVersionUID\u003c/code\u003e, of type long.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,[]]
