Technorati’s new look and new math
Steve Safran May 24th, 2007
Technorati has rolled out a new look to go along with the changes it has made in how it ranks blogs and how it approaches search. (According to the Technorati Blog, the relaunch was promptly met with a bot attack which brought it down for a time Wednesday.) Writes Technorati founder Dave Sifry:
We’ve eliminated search silos on Technorati. In the past, you had to know the difference between keyword search, tag search and blog directory search in order to make use of the full power of our site. No more. Starting today, we now provide you a simplified experience. Simply indicate what’s of interest to you and we’ll assemble the freshest, hottest, most current social media from across the Live Web - Blogs, posts, photos, videos, podcasts, events, and more.
Here’s the new look:
4 Comments Add your own
1. David | May 24th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Anyone else notice that anti-war Republican Ron Paul has been HUGE on Technorati, Digg, and YouTube lately? The dude’s got a ton of myspace friends too…
He’s nowhere in the polls though. Is it due to spamming or is he 2008’s Howard Dean?
2. discreet_chaos | May 24th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
RE: Ron Paul
There’s a thing in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette which mentions this fact and because of my experience with doing something electiony, I can concur with their experience.
There’s a highly-motivated Paul fanbase and though they probably each have their own canned email, I know that I’ve gotten several which try to get me to do more about him and though all of the emails are different, they each follow a similar format. So, much so, that I now have my own “canned” email that I send out in response.
Therefore, it wouldn’t surprise me that this same group of people are manipulating Technorati. Of course, it may not be something sinister or even automated and it may only be that they’re sitting on the thing, ready to pounce on anything new. But, I can say based on my own experience that there’s a small and highly-motivated group of people, all of which like to use the word “grassroots” and whom seem to be using the web to their candidate’s advantage.
3. Lurker | May 24th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I like Technorati’s new interface. It seems “cleaner”, but I also have to point toward their “Help” link, which’ll take you to their support forums.
It appears that they’ve had some issues with their explosive growth and there are some who question all of these widgets, when they’re personally on the short end of a problem with their basic service.
4. Charles | May 24th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Re: Ron Paul, remember… there IS such a thing as a vocal minority…
Last election cycle, I remember seeing his election speech and seeing him state that he would ONLY elect Christians to places of power, such as SCOTUS. Which, does OSHA apply to SCOTUS? Because I don’t think anyone can do that, just based soley on religion, which was his point.
At any rate, it’ll be interesting to see if he gains traction.
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