Technorati is an Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic search engine A web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web for searching blogs A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. By June 2008, Technorati indexes Web indexing includes back-of-book-style indexes to individual websites or an intranet, and the creation of keyword metadata to provide a more useful vocabulary for Internet or onsite search engines. With the increase in the number of periodicals that have articles online, web indexing is also becoming important for periodical websites 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[2] The name Technorati is a portmanteau A portmanteau (pronounced /pɔrtmænˈtoʊ/ ) or portmanteau word is used broadly to mean a blend of two (or more) words and their meanings into one, and narrowly in linguistics fields to mean only a blend of two or more function words of the words technology Technology is a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment. Technology is a term with origins in the Greek technología — téchnē (τέχνη), 'craft' and -logía (-λογία), the study of something, and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.
Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry Dave Sifry is an American software entrepreneur and blogosphere icon known most recently for founding Technorati, a leading blog search engine. He also lectures widely on wireless technology and policy, weblogs, and open source software and its headquarters Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. The corporate headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities. In the UK, the term 'head office' is most commonly used for the HQs of large corporations are in San Francisco San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the eighth most densely populated city in the U.S. and is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than seven million, California California (pronounced /kælɨˈfɔrnjə/ ) is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil. It is located on the West Coast of the United States, and is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the northeast,, USA The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the. Tantek Çelik Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent[citation needed] and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati.. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications was the site's Chief Technologist.
Technorati uses and contributes to open source Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code. Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted, developers software. Technorati has an active software developer A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming or a specialty of project managing including some aspects of software product management. This person may contribute to the overview of the project on the community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare Levanta was a company based in San Mateo, California, United States, that created products for Linux management and data virtualization and later of Wi-Fi Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance that may be used with WiFi-certified products. WiFi product specifications are based on the IEEE 802.11 standards. The certification warrants interoperability with other certified wireless devices access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer's wiki A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor, within the browser. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in, where developers and contributors collaborate, also various open APIs An application programming interface is an interface that a software program implements in order to allow other software to interact with it; much in the same way that software might implement a user interface in order to allow humans to interact with it.
The site won the SXSW South by Southwest is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. SXSW first began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center. Each of the three parts runs relatively independently, with different start and end dates 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show.[3] It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby Award The Webby Awards is an international paid-entry-exclusive award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since 1996. There is also a second set of awards called the People's Voice Awards for the for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of October 2009[update], it claims to host more than 4 billion images and Google Maps Google Maps is a basic web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling.[4]
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Technology
Technorati looks at tags In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system that authors have placed on their websites. These tags help categorize search results, with recent results coming first[citation needed].
Technorati rates each blog's "authority", the number of unique blogs linking to the blog over the previous six months.
Criticism
In February 2006, Debi Jones pointed out that Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere" postings, which then claimed to track 27.7 million blogs, did not take into account MySpace MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media, which is owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was blogs, of which she said there were 56 million. As a result, she said that the utility of Technorati as a gauge of blog popularity was questionable.[5] However by March 2006, Aaron Brazell pointed out that Technorati had started tracking MySpace blogs.[6]
In May 2006 Technorati teamed up with the PR agency Edelman Edelman is an independently owned public relations company founded in 1952 by Daniel J. Edelman and today led by President & CEO Richard Edelman. The deal earned a lot of criticism, both on principle and as a result of Edelman's 2006 fake blog A fake blog is an electronic communication form that appears to originate from a credible, non-biased source, but which in fact is created by a company or organization for the purpose of marketing a product, service, or political viewpoint. The purpose of a fake blog is to inspire viral marketing or create an internet meme that generates traffic scandals. Edelman and Technorati officially ended the deal in December 2006. That month, Oliver Reichenstein pointed out that the so called "State of the Blogosphere" was more of a PR-tool and money maker for Edelman and Technorati than a reliable source, explaining in particular a) why Technorati/Edelman's claim that "31% of the blogs are written in Japanese" was "bogus" and b) where the financial profit for the involved parties was in this. [7]
In May 2007, Andrew Orlowski Andrew Orlowski is a British columnist for the online IT newspaper The Register writing for the tech tabloid A Tech tabloid is a type of news media that mainly concentrates on technology news: science, IT, semiconductors, telecoms and related issues, but also takes on a less formal and more humorous approach than traditional technology publications such as EE Times or EDN. They are professional in nature, though, rather than community-based technology The Register The Register is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service. Mike Magee left The Register in 2001 to start The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner criticized Technorati's May 2007 redesign. He suggests that Technorati has decided to focus more on returning image thumbnails rather than blog results. He also claims that Technorati never quite worked correctly in the past and that the alleged refocus is "a tacit admission that it's given up on its original mission".[8]
References
- ^ David Sifry (November 27, 2002). "Technorati". Sifry's Alerts. http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000095.html. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
- ^ "Welcome to Technorati". today. http://technorati.com/about. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
- ^ "Web Awards Winners". south by southwest festivals + conferences. 2006. http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
- ^ "2006 webby nominees: 10th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners". Webby Awards. 2006. http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=10#best_practices. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
- ^ Debi Jones (February 16, 2006). "The Site that Ate the Blogosphere". MobileJones.com. http://www.blogher.com/node/2509. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
- ^ Aaron Brazell (March 31, 2006). "Technorati Indexing MySpace Blogs". Technosailor. http://technosailor.com/technorati-indexing-myspace-blogs/. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
- ^ Oliver Reichenstein (December 13, 2006). "Technorati: Big business with bogus data". Information Architects Japan. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/bogus-technoratiedelman-statistics. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
- ^ Andrew Orlowski (May 25, 2007). "Technorati knocks itself out. Again". theregister.co.uk. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/25/technorati_retreats/. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
External links
- Technorati Home Page
- Technorati's own blog
- Technorati management team official page, reference for much of the above
- Giga OM's entry on the end of the Technorati-Edelman deal
- Technorati's 2008 State of the Blogoshpere Report
Categories: Blog search engines | Web 2.0 Categories: Centralized computing | World Wide Web | Websites | Blogs The existence of this category does not imply that any and every weblog should have an entry in Wikipedia. This category exists for weblogs that have widespread influence, controversy and/or media presence, and also for those written by people otherwise famous, notable or significant that happen to write weblogs. See also criteria for biographies
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removed from that list as soon as they reach it since Technorati wants to keep the list fair and related to blog popularity rather than theme popularity and that is of course a good thing But as I was looking at my profile page I saw that my current Technorati Rank is surprisingly good My site is currently ranked as 6 and that made me wonder why I have not used Technorati
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Last week, . Technorati. presented its State of the Blogosphere 2009, a report of the latest trends and statistics about blogging. The report featured in...
Q. Some web sites like Technorati.
Asked by John L - Sun Jun 10 14:24:59 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Google Blog Search is a site where you can search for blogs just like Technorati :
Answered by vin - Mon Jun 11 10:38:42 2007
