My take on them are is that they are category filters. When I go to somone's blog, maybe I want to see all the tutorials. Or maybe I want to see all the business posts or all the treasury posts.
Click on a label and blogger will filter out any articles that do not have that label, so you will see only those posts that carry that label, one after the other.
I used to have like 30 labels and decided to trim it down to a few, distinct categories.
Of course, too, every post can carry more than one label in case it fits in to more than one category.
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