Technorati Releases Major New Feature
Michael Arrington
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Dave Sifry announced the Technorati Blog Finder this evening. Derek Powazek at Technorati also posts on Blog Finder here.
What is it? It’s a ranked list of blogs. By Tag. David Powazek calls it “a mini Top 100 for any topic you can imagine”.
Here’s Katrina. Here’s Web 2.0. Here’s Skype.
How good is it? I think it has some problems. Tags are publisher created and so publishers will add a lot of them, and will have an incentive to push the envelope on what is considered an appropriate tag for their blog. I believe, for instance, that I could make TechCrunch a very popular cooking site simply by adding the tag “cooking” to the TechCrunch blog.
There are three ways tags are added. Technorati has already tagged “over 2 million blogs” according to Sifry, and that appears to be accurate. The other two way tags are added are via publisher tools (note the text below is tailored to add a “web2.0″ tag):
Get in here! To add your blog to this page, claim your blog and add “web2.0″ to your blog tags, or put this code on your site.
Technorati did do a pretty good job of selecting tags that describe Techcrunch, however. There are definitely some changes I’d make, but it’s a good start.
The Blog Finder is available as the third tab on Technorati.
At first glance, I actually think I prefer the Rojo approach in this case. Rojo’s lists use tags that readers have used to describe individual posts that a blog has published. See our profile update here for details. I do, however, believe that lists, if they are useful, must be subject based. This is an interesting experiment in solving this problem.
Previous Technorati Posts by TechCrunch: August 17, 2005, August 11, 2005, June 20, 2005 and June 11, 2005
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nice Feature,terrific~~~~~~~~~
Thanks for the comments and feedback.
This is an early beta, and we wanted to get it out to the world so that you can bang on it, give us your comments, and help us to improve it by tagging your blogs with the tags that you want to be listed under.
Would love your continued feedback and comments, you can reach me directly at dsifry at technorati dot com as well…
Dave
Posted by: David Sifry
Great point on the potential for spam. I do wonder what would happen if someone submitted a bunch of bogus tags to Technorati Blog Finder to try to attract traffic to their site.
In general, while tagging works well to provide metadata for photos in Flickr, I’m not sure it is all that useful for text data like blogs, blog posts, and web documents where metadata already exists or easily can be extracted. More on that on my blog in my post “Questioning tags“.
http://glinden.blogspot.com/20.....-tags.html