Technorati
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. As of April 2007, Technorati indexes over 75 million weblogs. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.
Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik is the site's Chief Technologist.
Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer's wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, as well as various open APIs.
The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show.[1] It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.[2]
Criticism
In February 2006, Debi Jones pointed out that Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere" postings, which claimed that they track 27.7 million blogs, failed to take into account MySpace blogs, of which she says there are 56 million. As a result, she says the utility of Technorati as a gauge for blog popularity is questionable.[3] However by March 2006, Aaron Brazell pointed out that Technorati had started tracking MySpace "blogs".[4]
More recently, journalists have criticized Technorati for failing to index blogs, the search engine failing to operate properly, and its latest redesign which appears to give up on its primary mission of indexing blogs altogether. The company's obvious favoritism toward certain bloggers has also come under scrutiny. [5]
References
- ^ "Web Awards Winners". south by southwest festivals + conferences. 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
- ^ "2006 webby nominees: 10th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners". Webby Awards. 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
- ^ Debi Jones (February 16, 2006). "The Site that Ate the Blogosphere: Why MySpace matters and Technorati doesn't". MobileJones.com. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
- ^ Aaron Brazell (March 31, 2006). "Technorati Indexing MySpace Blogs". Technosailor. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
- ^ Andrew Orlowski (May 25, 2007). "Technorati knocks itself out. Again". theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-28-05.
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External links
- Technorati
- Technorati's own blog
- Technorati management team official page, reference for much of the above
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