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Technorati's upgrade

I've been using Technorati since early on; now it's three years old and has just completed a major upgrade that makes it, for bloggers and blog readers, one of the most useful sites on the web. Originally a search engine focused on blog content and traffic analysis, Technorati has added and improved features... here's Dave Sifry's summary from his post about the upgrade:

• Technorati is 3 years old! What an amazing trip so far.
• The World Live Web is all about people - We're here to help make sense of all the interesting stuff we do in real-time.
• Technorati's rolled out a major update to our site and to our back-end systems.
• We've made some major speed and accuracy improvements in core search.
• Link counting is a lot more accurate and timely.
• We've personalized the homepage so you can get a look at all the stuff you care about on one page.
• While we love expert bloggers, we've also spent a lot of time making Technorati understandable to normal people.
• We've added in lots of features to help you make sense of the blogosphere, including Discover, which is topic-based, Favorites, which gives YOU the power to pick your favorite blogs, and Popular, which algorithmically derives the most linked-to items in the last few days.
• We've made some big changes to blog profiles - allowing you to get stats about any blog that Technorati tracks, including the tags used, posting frequency, traffic, and Technorati ranking.
• We've made things easier for advertisers and partners, and we've been overwhelmed with demand. We're building out our capabilities, and if you're interested in advertising, drop us a line.
• This is just a start - there's more to come in the coming weeks and months, including better charts, more real-time spam detection and elimination, more real-time media indexing, microformats integration, and additional localization and language support.

Technorati hasn't always worked perfectly, but that's the 21st century for you – we're living a perpetual beta existence. The good news is that it keeps getting better.

jon posted this at 9:37 AM
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