1. A computer implemented method of selecting content object tags for recommendation to a user of a content hosting service, the method comprising: identifying a baseline subset of content objects within a content object corpus at the content hosting service based on a user context at the content hosting service; identifying a targeted subset of the baseline subset of content objects based on the user context, wherein each content object in the targeted subset of content objects is associated with one or more tags; for each tag associated with the targeted subset of content objects: determining a targeted subset count score for the tag based on the number of content objects in the targeted subset of content objects tagged with the tag; determining a frequency normalization score for the tag based on the proportion of the targeted subset of content objects that are tagged with the tag relative to the proportion of the baseline subset of content objects that are tagged with the tag; determining a distribution score for the tag based on 1) a first ratio comprising a number of content objects in a top-ranked portion of the targeted subset of content objects to the total number of content objects in the targeted subset of content objects, 2) a second ratio comprising a number of content objects in the top-ranked portion of the targeted subset of content objects that are tagged with the tag to the total number of content objects in the targeted subset of content objects that are tagged with the tag, and 3) a third ratio based on a logarithm of the first ratio and a logarithm of the second ratio; and computing a weighted tag score for the tag by combining all of the targeted subset count score for the tag, the frequency normalization score for the tag, the distribution score for the tag, and one or more associated weight coefficients; and selecting one or more tags for recommendation to the user based on the determined weighted tag scores.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user context comprises the browsing of content objects by the user.