google was blacklisted as of 2013-12-31 and no questions are left with that tag. Similar activity can be done with advanced searches like this, though I will not track progress in this list due to the blacklist.
Currently there are 240 google-related tags with the word 'google' in them.
There are additional tags which are hidden, like gwt or gsa which seem to relate to google but don't pop up on my (admittedly basic) search.
Issue
This is the tag wiki entry for google:
Please do not use this tag.
google is a very low quality tag, having very little useful meaning; please be more specific, using tags like:
Yet there are 13k questions tagged with it. There was a discussion in April to kill it with fire but it just kind of lingered there instead. And since that was posted, 2,818 new questions have been tagged with the google tag.
Several of the google tags are one of a tag-pair which indicates one of our other tags. For instance, there are 1,157 questions tagged with both google and maps. While I'm sure some are not actually about google-maps, the vast majority seem to be.
Classifying the Madness
So I took the list of 240 tags with google
in them, and split them up in to pairs like google
and maps
. There were 155 unique google
+ x
combinations. I searched through the most popular 50 of them. Of those 50, 34 had more than 0 questions tagged with both those terms at the same time. The results are updated in the answer (the 'to-do' list).
Proposed Action
In the past, all tags tagged [google] and [earth] were retagged to [google-earth], but it looks like that was done for hand. This is a lot of work for the 3,696 questions above that would have to be sifted through.
I will go through and pick off all the tags with less than 50 questions tagged, but the following tags, if possible, could be given a mass renaming:
- [google] [maps] ⇒ google-maps
- [google] [search] ⇒ google-search
- [google] [oauth] ⇒ google-oauth
- [google] [calendar] ⇒ google-calendar
- [google] [charts] ⇒ google-charts
- [google] [ajax] ⇒ google-ajax
- [google] [openid] ⇒ google-openid
- [google] [url] ⇒ google-url
- [google] [authentication] ⇒ google-authentication
- [google] [image] ⇒ google-image
- [google] [eclipse] ⇒ google-eclipse
- [google] [index] ⇒ google-index
- [google] [spreadsheet] ⇒ google-spreadsheet
- [google] [email] ⇒ google-email
- [google] [sitemap] ⇒ google-sitemap
- [google] [geocoding] ⇒ google-geocoding
- [google] [cloud] ⇒ google-cloud
- [google] [login] ⇒ google-login
- [google] [font] ⇒ google-font
- [google] [adwords] ⇒ google-adwords
- [google] [http] ⇒ google-http
- [google] [translate] ⇒ google-translate
In the long term, rather than having a tag wiki that says, "Don't use this tag!" while still get hundreds of questions a month, we should look in to getting all 13k of those tags reclassified and blacklisting google. This is the low-hanging fruit.
Additional Support
A lot of these google- tags should be synonyms. I can't figure out which ones have synonyms to which, and it is a lot of work to go through each. I will start on it, but would really appreciate any help that could be provided. Here is a list of the 240 google-related tags I found, just sorting by name will find several easy retag requests for duplicate tags. These are from the API.
Tag |Count|Has synonyms
google-app-engine |22388|yes
google-maps |22326|yes
google-chrome |19736|yes
google |13554|no
google-maps-api-3 |10808|yes
google-chrome-extension | 6983|no
google-analytics | 4989|no
google-apps-script | 4933|no
google-api | 3451|yes
google-play | 2626|yes
google-drive-sdk | 2450|no
google-visualization | 2269|yes
google-spreadsheet | 1971|no
google-maps-markers | 1798|no
google-plus | 1753|yes
google-calendar | 1491|yes
google-maps-android-api-2| 1258|no
google-chrome-devtools | 1213|no
google-drive | 1194|no
google-docs | 1063|no
google-places-api | 938|no
google-fusion-tables | 915|yes
google-apps | 858|no
google-analytics-api | 806|no
google-oauth | 735|no
google-maps-api-2 | 710|no
google-docs-api | 688|no
google-bigquery | 668|no
google-play-services | 649|no
google-earth | 582|no
google-cloud-storage | 529|yes
google-cloud-endpoints | 505|no
google-closure-compiler | 477|no
googletest | 451|yes
google-tv | 444|no
google-translate | 442|no
google-earth-plugin | 431|no
google-spreadsheet-api | 428|no
google-charts-api | 423|no
google-chrome-app | 422|no
google-search | 406|no
google-api-java-client | 397|no
google-closure | 366|no
google-checkout | 364|no
google-glass | 349|no
google-maps-sdk-ios | 336|no
google-geocoder | 330|no
google-plus-one | 302|no
google-code | 294|no
google-sites | 287|no
google-contacts | 284|no
google-mirror-api | 279|no
google-street-view | 272|yes
google-cloud-sql | 251|no
googlebot | 249|no
google-talk | 248|yes
google-webmaster-tools | 248|no
google-search-api | 241|no
google-cloud-messaging | 239|no
google-closure-library | 238|no
google-adwords-api | 217|no
google-wallet | 214|no
google-api-client | 207|no
google-custom-search | 204|no
google-openid | 202|no
google-geocoding-api | 198|no
google-webfonts | 197|no
google-reader | 197|yes
google-data-api | 184|no
google-cast | 181|no
google-play-games | 165|yes
google-datastore | 163|no
google-nativeclient | 162|yes
google-admin-sdk | 158|no
google-api-php-client | 154|no
google-api-python-client | 151|no
google-drive-realtime-api| 148|no
google-gadget | 146|no
google-authentication | 140|no
google-compute-engine | 139|no
google-account | 135|yes
google-places | 131|no
google-form | 128|no
google-cse | 125|no
google-api-dotnet-client | 123|no
google-static-maps | 122|no
google-dfp | 121|no
google-adwords | 120|no
googlemock | 117|no
google-font-api | 114|no
google-chrome-frame | 110|no
google-apps-marketplace | 95|no
google-wave | 93|no
google-gears | 92|no
google-polyline | 90|no
google-direction | 86|no
google-eclipse-plugin | 86|no
google-image-search | 84|no
google-maps-mobile | 83|no
google-tag-manager | 83|no
google-crawlers | 82|no
google-voice | 80|no
google-provisioning-api | 78|no
google-feed-api | 76|no
google-cloud-print | 74|no
google-groups | 70|no
google-finance | 69|no
google-search-appliance | 67|no
google-chrome-os | 67|yes
google-cdn | 67|no
google-gdk | 67|no
google-books | 63|no
google-plugin-eclipse | 62|no
google-tasks-api | 61|no
google-website-optimizer | 60|no
igoogle | 58|no
google-login | 58|no
google-weather-api | 57|no
google-caja | 56|no
google-swiffy | 55|no
google-latitude | 52|no
google-code-jam | 50|no
google-geochart | 49|no
google-cloud-datastore | 46|no
google-now | 45|no
google-refine | 45|no
google-api-ruby-client | 44|no
google-groups-api | 43|no
google-pagespeed | 43|no
google-shopping-api | 43|no
google-closure-templates | 42|no
google-code-prettify | 42|no
google-schemas | 41|no
google-index | 41|no
googlevis | 40|no
google-maps-styled | 38|no
google-prediction | 37|no
google-api-console | 35|no
google-storage | 34|no
google-buzz | 33|no
google-ajax-api | 33|no
google-shared-contacts | 33|no
google-news | 32|no
google-url-shortener | 32|no
google-ranking | 31|no
google-finance-api | 31|no
google-api-js-client | 31|no
google-api-objc-client | 31|no
google-sitemap | 29|no
google-reflections | 29|no
google-chartwrapper | 29|no
google-text-to-speech | 28|no
google-perftools | 28|no
google-authenticator | 28|no
google-apps-for-education| 26|no
google-reseller-api | 25|no
google-profiles-api | 25|no
googleio | 24|no
google-tasks | 23|no
google-instant | 23|no
google-local-search | 22|no
google-code-hosting | 21|no
google-ad-manager | 20|no
google-product-search | 20|no
google-goggles | 20|no
google-scholar | 19|no
google-translator-toolkit| 19|no
google-toolbox-for-mac | 19|no
google-chrome-storage | 19|no
google-directory-api | 18|no
google-data | 18|no
google-mini | 17|no
google-api-nodejs-client | 17|no
google-experiments | 17|no
google-suggest | 16|no
google-alerts | 16|no
google-doodle | 15|no
google-friend-connect | 15|no
rgooglemaps | 15|no
google-rich-snippets | 15|no
google-shopping | 14|no
google-email-settings-api| 14|no
google-admin-settings-api| 13|no
google-http-client | 13|no
google-client | 13|no
google-maps-engine | 13|no
google-base | 13|no
google-ajax-libraries | 13|no
google-widget | 12|no
google-style-guide | 12|no
google-document-viewer | 12|no
google-email-migration | 12|no
google-reporting-api | 11|no
google-datatable | 11|no
google-gauges | 10|no
google.load | 10|no
google-desktop | 10|no
google-nexus | 10|no
google-loader | 10|no
google-http-java-client | 10|no
google-groups-settings | 9|no
xgoogle | 9|no
google-sso | 9|no
google-closure-libraries | 8|no
google-toolbar | 8|no
google-app-engine-patch | 8|no
google-ajax | 8|no
google-project-hosting | 7|no
google-email-audit-api | 7|no
google-maps-android-api-1| 7|no
google-oauth-java-client | 7|no
google-license-manager | 6|no
google-instant-previews | 6|no
pygooglechart | 6|no
googlecl | 6|no
google-ctemplate | 6|no
google-appliance | 6|no
google-moderator | 5|no
google-language-api | 5|no
google-data-protocol | 5|no
google-ajax-search-api | 5|no
google-breakpad | 4|no
google-closure-stylesheet| 4|no
google-groups-migration | 3|no
google-admin-audit-api | 3|no
google-desktop-search | 3|no
google-body-browser | 2|no
google-local-business | 2|no
google-health | 2|no
google-notebook | 2|no
google-playground | 2|no
google-api-cpp-client | 2|no
spring-social-google | 2|no
google-spanner | 2|no
google-webdriver | 1|no
google-go-idea-plugin | 1|no
google-maps-engine-lite | 1|no
google-maps-engine-pro | 1|no
google-keep | 1|no
google-cloud-console | 1|no
As we go through the tag combos, we will find a lot of tagging issues, synonyms, etc. which are being tracked in the answers below. Feel free to go from the above data list, or to work on the already-discovered issues in the answer. Every little bit helps!
A list of all google tag pairs based on the above tags is available in the answers with links, and the status (how many questions with that pair exist).