1. A method, relating to creating and maintaining, in at least one database available to a population of users, on a database server computer, information about a plurality of database of subjects, comprising the steps of: a) associating with each database subject of such plurality of database subjects at least one plurality of natural-language tags potentially descriptive of such each database subject according to an involved subset of such population of database users; said at least one plurality of natural language tags comprising other user chosen and/or other user provided natural language terms potentially descriptive of a subject or subjects of said database; b) assessing at least one measure of descriptive relevance of each of such at least one plurality of natural-language tags to such each database subject according to each particular database user of such involved subset of such population of database users; c) associatively indexing, in such at least one database, such respective particular database users, such respective natural-language tags, such respective measures of relevance, and such respective database subjects; and d) accumulating and storing such respective measures of relevance.
1. A method, relating to creating and maintaining, in at least one database available to a population of users, on a database server computer, information about a plurality of database of subjects, comprising the steps of: a) associating with each database subject of such plurality of database subjects at least one plurality of natural-language tags potentially descriptive of such each database subject according to an involved subset of such population of database users; said at least one plurality of natural language tags comprising other user chosen and/or other user provided natural language terms potentially descriptive of a subject or subjects of said database; b) assessing at least one measure of descriptive relevance of each of such at least one plurality of natural-language tags to such each database subject according to each particular database user of such involved subset of such population of database users; c) associatively indexing, in such at least one database, such respective particular database users, such respective natural-language tags, such respective measures of relevance, and such respective database subjects; and d) accumulating and storing such respective measures of relevance. 9. The method according to claim 1 in which such subjects comprise products.