Technorati

I'd never heard of Technorati before this. I did the search for "Learning 2.0" in the blog posts, tags and blog directory and I did find different results. The search for blog posts searched for my search terms within the blog posts. I had a little more trouble figuring out what the difference was between the tag search and the blog directory search, because even though different results were appearing, I wasn't sure how they were that different. Studying the search interface provided some clues, as the "tag" search searches "posts, photos and links" on the terms, and the "directory" just searches blogs on the topic. My understanding is that the blog directory search is different than the blog post search because the directory search seems to search predetermined categories of blogs.

Looking at the "Top Favorited Blogs", I thought it was funny that the Boing Boing blog was given a "top award at the 2006 Bloggies ceremony". Anyways, I thought it was interesting to see what types of things people were searcing for in blogs, and what people were "favoriting". I really thought the "Top Blogs" were the most interesting though, because of how they highlighted the use of the "Authority" feature, which gives you the number of blogs linking to a website. I thought that this could be a really useful tool, for example, if you wanted to become more informed of upcoming technology trends and you don't know where people are getting the information, you could use Technorati to see to which pages a lot of people are linking.