Steve Rubel’s “Ten Technorati Hacks” is outstanding. If you are looking to exploit the deeper features of Technorati, read his post.
My favorite features:
- Suscribe to Tag Feeds: Every technorati tag has its own feed
- Subscribe to Search Feeds: Every search has its own feed.
- Individual Blog Search: Click on the search tab and then enter the unique blog URL you want to search.
- Brower and OS plugings: Mac OS widgets and Firefox plugins
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Technorati lately. They are doing a much better job indexing blogs quickly and in general posts are appearing in near real-time. Yahoo, Google, Topix and many others have launched blog search to try to knock Technorati out of its top position in real time search. None have succeeded so far, and Technorati’s recent full boolean search feature for tags shows that they are committed to innovating.
I agree.Technorati is one step ahead in the blog search and in a way it is very different ball game altogether. It is not just sufficient to find the relevant content as with generic web search because the focus is now on the quality and how well the featched results mach personalized info space preferences..the personalized info space is really formed by your own tags and the tags of the community you hang out with..so Technorati’s approach is good one..Also transient nature of blog attractions and the real time aspect in the blog updates can not be handled by conventional caching based web search..and since blogging is all about distributive knowledge bank based on community verification model the farther we stay away from a centralized authority deciding what is important the better we will be in long run..So go Technorati !! Keep innovating ..