Comments on: Technorati now has Authority http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:13:56 -0800 hourly 1 By: Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Museums and the Web http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-22442 Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Museums and the Web Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:17:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-22442 [...] Earlier in the month we posted a Survey of Museum Blogs & Community Sites as well as a follow up post with a more complete list and a “call for action” to get museum blogs to cite each other and link to each other more often. As a group, we don’t have much authority in the blogging world. Perhaps we should look into starting a carnival, or some other method for more regularly citing each other more often? Maybe this could be picked up by those museum bloggers who are meeting at AAM as well? [...] [...] Earlier in the month we posted a Survey of Museum Blogs & Community Sites as well as a follow up post with a more complete list and a “call for action” to get museum blogs to cite each other and link to each other more often. As a group, we don’t have much authority in the blogging world. Perhaps we should look into starting a carnival, or some other method for more regularly citing each other more often? Maybe this could be picked up by those museum bloggers who are meeting at AAM as well? [...]

]]> By: Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Museum Blog Survey: Follow up http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-19368 Ideum Weblog » Blog Archive » Museum Blog Survey: Follow up Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:23:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-19368 [...] As probably most of you know, blogs become more visible–that is they gain “more authority” in blog search engines like Technorati by being linked to. (Most traditional search engines also use “popularity” as a way to rank results, too.) Since most museum blogs are new they don’t tend to have much “authority.” [...] [...] As probably most of you know, blogs become more visible–that is they gain “more authority” in blog search engines like Technorati by being linked to. (Most traditional search engines also use “popularity” as a way to rank results, too.) Since most museum blogs are new they don’t tend to have much “authority.” [...]

]]> By: 網絡暴民 Jacky’s Blog » 20060215網摘 - 香港諧音字文化 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-18934 網絡暴民 Jacky’s Blog » 20060215網摘 - 香港諧音字文化 Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:44:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-18934 [...] Technorati now has Authority 越多人 link，authority 越高，可在搜尋時設定高 authority 找更多人連結過的東西 [...] [...] Technorati now has Authority 越多人 link，authority 越高，可在搜尋時設定高 authority 找更多人連結過的東西 [...]

]]> By: StartupFutures.com » Blog Archive » Dan Grossman: What Technorati Can Learn from Online Dating Sites (TECHNORATI) http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-15018 StartupFutures.com » Blog Archive » Dan Grossman: What Technorati Can Learn from Online Dating Sites (TECHNORATI) Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:50:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-15018 [...] Technorati recently introduced a “filter by authority” feature to their blog search. The idea, from CEO Dave Sifry’s blog, is to “[make] it easy to refine a search and look for either a wider array of thoughts and opinions, or to narrow the search to only bloggers that have lots of other people linking to them. This gives you the power to decide how much filtering you want.”Scoble, Steve Reubel, and TechCrunch all offer opinions. It’s worth reading the comments for each entry. [...] [...] Technorati recently introduced a “filter by authority” feature to their blog search. The idea, from CEO Dave Sifry’s blog, is to “[make] it easy to refine a search and look for either a wider array of thoughts and opinions, or to narrow the search to only bloggers that have lots of other people linking to them. This gives you the power to decide how much filtering you want.”Scoble, Steve Reubel, and TechCrunch all offer opinions. It’s worth reading the comments for each entry. [...]

]]> By: Irishwonder’s Black Hat SEO Blog » Gmail goes down, Yahoo displays favicons http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13502 Irishwonder’s Black Hat SEO Blog » Gmail goes down, Yahoo displays favicons Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:51:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13502 [...] No responses to 'Gmail goes down, Yahoo displays favicons'. RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for 'Gmail goes down, Yahoo displaysfavicons'. [...] [...] No responses to ‘Gmail goes down, Yahoo displays favicons’. RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for ‘Gmail goes down, Yahoo displaysfavicons’. [...]

]]> By: ad blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13476 ad blog Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:26:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13476 <strong>Authority search...</strong> The new authority feature in Technorati is a neat function - narrowing to blogs with some authority (based on the number of links a blog has). I also like how the box with the explanations is inserted. It helps... Authority search…

The new authority feature in Technorati is a neat function – narrowing to blogs with some authority (based on the number of links a blog has). I also like how the box with the explanations is inserted. It helps…

]]> By: Links as measure of Authority on Technorati » @ Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ] http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13469 Links as measure of Authority on Technorati » @ Ambot ah! [ technology news and reviews ] Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:20:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13469 [...] Watching Technorati has been part of my daily routine nowadays but I didn’t notice that they’ve recently added an Authority slide until I read it over at Techcrunch. [...] [...] Watching Technorati has been part of my daily routine nowadays but I didn’t notice that they’ve recently added an Authority slide until I read it over at Techcrunch. [...]

]]> By: Technorati Authority Filter at joshteeters.org http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13444 Technorati Authority Filter at joshteeters.org Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:39:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13444 [...] There’s some good comments about this topic here. [...] [...] There’s some good comments about this topic here. [...]

]]> By: /Message http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13391 /Message Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:13:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13391 <strong>Technorati Authority Filter...</strong> Technorati has apparently snuck a new feature into use: an Authority slider, that filters out (or in) blog posts based on the authority of the author. This was reported by Robert Scoble, and commented on by many others. Steve Rubel... Technorati Authority Filter…

Technorati has apparently snuck a new feature into use: an Authority slider, that filters out (or in) blog posts based on the authority of the author. This was reported by Robert Scoble, and commented on by many others. Steve Rubel…

]]> By: CetaMac http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13388 CetaMac Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:00:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13388 Authority? Just like the PageRank? Ha, I'm not sure it's meaning. Being judged by others makes me uncomfored, first, no one have the power to judge you except your self. Two, any judgement is advise in general for most people. No one knows how worth the blog is, for a specified guy who is just visiting it. Because it comes from how many useful information "this guy" could be found on the blog. Technorati is making a boreding job, except for satisfieding personal vanity. Authority? Just like the PageRank? Ha, I’m not sure it’s meaning. Being judged by others makes me uncomfored, first, no one have the power to judge you except your self. Two, any judgement is advise in general for most people. No one knows how worth the blog is, for a specified guy who is just visiting it. Because it comes from how many useful information “this guy” could be found on the blog. Technorati is making a boreding job, except for satisfieding personal vanity.

]]> By: kareem http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13385 kareem Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:26:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13385 "but what is a better way to determine authority other than links into a blog?" How about item-level links that rank authority based on topic? Instead of Scoble being an authority on everything (the way it currently is), he'd be an authority on things that he writes about that other influential people in the topic area link to. So if he writes about knitting, he's not considered authoritative on the subject because no influential knitters link to his post. But if he writes about Microsoft, lots of other authoritative bloggers about MS link to him, so he is considered authoritative. The key is having an engine that distills a piece of content down to its essence. Pretty sure there are a couple of companies you've reviewed who are thinking about things like this... Kareem “but what is a better way to determine authority other than links into a blog?”

How about item-level links that rank authority based on topic?

Instead of Scoble being an authority on everything (the way it currently is), he’d be an authority on things that he writes about that other influential people in the topic area link to.

So if he writes about knitting, he’s not considered authoritative on the subject because no influential knitters link to his post. But if he writes about Microsoft, lots of other authoritative bloggers about MS link to him, so he is considered authoritative.

The key is having an engine that distills a piece of content down to its essence.

Pretty sure there are a couple of companies you’ve reviewed who are thinking about things like this…

Kareem

]]> By: JD’s Tech Journal :: Technorati gives more weight to authorities :: February :: 2006 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13382 JD’s Tech Journal :: Technorati gives more weight to authorities :: February :: 2006 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:57:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13382 [...] Later, more from Mike Arrington who says “the slider is a bit buggy but works. This is another good way for people to sort results to find what they are looking for.” [...] [...] Later, more from Mike Arrington who says “the slider is a bit buggy but works. This is another good way for people to sort results to find what they are looking for.” [...]

]]> By: Jeff Dalton http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13360 Jeff Dalton Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:57:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13360 I'm still waiting for <a href="http://www.sphere.com" rel="nofollow">Sphere</a> and topic specific community based ranking. I’m still waiting for Sphere and topic specific community based ranking.

]]> By: Somewhat Frank http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13354 Somewhat Frank Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:44:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13354 <strong>Technorati Rolls Out Authority Search Filter...</strong> Technorati recently rolled a new feature into its search results sets that allows you to filter the results by authority. What is authority? According to Technorati:Technorati calculates a blog's authority by how many people link to it. Filtering by... Technorati Rolls Out Authority Search Filter…

Technorati recently rolled a new feature into its search results sets that allows you to filter the results by authority. What is authority? According to Technorati:Technorati calculates a blog’s authority by how many people link to it. Filtering by…

]]> By: Standard Deviation » Blog Archive » Whose authority? http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13352 Standard Deviation » Blog Archive » Whose authority? Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:13:45 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13352 [...] Technorati has just added ‘authority’ filtering to their search (see Scoble, TechCrunch, Dave Sifry, et cetera). [...] [...] Technorati has just added ‘authority’ filtering to their search (see Scoble, TechCrunch, Dave Sifry, et cetera). [...]

]]> By: Jeremy Pepper http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13351 Jeremy Pepper Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:12:54 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13351 I thought I remember seeing the Authority slide, but in the end it really means nothing if they are equating it with links. It looks like since I stopped tagging my posts with Technorati tags - which never seemed to work anyway - I have dropped in their blog finder rankings ... which only measured ... links. And, on that list, I am higher than Richard Edelman? Um, for worldwide authority, I'd put Edelman a little bit higher than me and others (speaking at Davos will do that for you), and on that list, I'd put myself a little higher than others that are good at being link whores, but say nothing but sometimes posit psuedo-philosophical questions while linking to others' posts. But, so much for egalitarianism. I thought I remember seeing the Authority slide, but in the end it really means nothing if they are equating it with links.

It looks like since I stopped tagging my posts with Technorati tags – which never seemed to work anyway – I have dropped in their blog finder rankings … which only measured … links.

And, on that list, I am higher than Richard Edelman? Um, for worldwide authority, I’d put Edelman a little bit higher than me and others (speaking at Davos will do that for you), and on that list, I’d put myself a little higher than others that are good at being link whores, but say nothing but sometimes posit psuedo-philosophical questions while linking to others’ posts.

But, so much for egalitarianism.

]]> By: amos moses griffin.com » http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13349 amos moses griffin.com » Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:43:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13349 [...] Technorati just released an “Authority” tool (via TechCrunch and Scobleizer) which lets you filter search results by, well, authority. In theory it could give you more relevant search results, who doesn’t want that, and possibly it will. [...] [...] Technorati just released an “Authority” tool (via TechCrunch and Scobleizer) which lets you filter search results by, well, authority. In theory it could give you more relevant search results, who doesn’t want that, and possibly it will. [...]

]]> By: Ozh http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13337 Ozh Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:50:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13337 We just need a tool that merges stats from technorati (for incoming links) and feedburner/bloglines/stufflikethis (for readership size) to really measure popularity. We just need a tool that merges stats from technorati (for incoming links) and feedburner/bloglines/stufflikethis (for readership size) to really measure popularity.

]]> By: Paul Montgomery http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13334 Paul Montgomery Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:29:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13334 One authority measure is how often you mention people in your chosen field, which is what Tinfinger uses. One authority measure is how often you mention people in your chosen field, which is what Tinfinger uses.

]]> By: Data Mining http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13333 Data Mining Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:25:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13333 <strong>Technorati, Authority, and Getting Names Right...</strong> TechCrunch (and others) posts about Technorati's new authority feature which filters results by the number of inlinks to a post. Rubel discusses the notion of authority and why the use of inlinks as a proxy may dilute the meaning of... Technorati, Authority, and Getting Names Right…

TechCrunch (and others) posts about Technorati’s new authority feature which filters results by the number of inlinks to a post. Rubel discusses the notion of authority and why the use of inlinks as a proxy may dilute the meaning of…

]]> By: Bernhard Seefeld http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13331 Bernhard Seefeld Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:19:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13331 A small addition: Imagine if technorati would put their database on the Alexa Cluster and anyone could datamine historic link structures in the blogosphere. That would disrupt the hell out of the real time web! A small addition: Imagine if technorati would put their database on the Alexa Cluster and anyone could datamine historic link structures in the blogosphere.

That would disrupt the hell out of the real time web!

]]> By: Bernhard Seefeld http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13329 Bernhard Seefeld Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:05:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13329 One could also look at past performance against a certain metric. For example on where in the linking cycle of popular links a blog usually is, i.e. if the blog often links to items that become very popular a short time *after* the link is posted, this blog is either an influencer or follows influencers closely (and is thus aggregating influencers..). I don't know if there is enough signal vs noise here, but my guess is that the small number of blogs watched by memeorandum was picked (automatically or by hand) by this criteria. Other "past performance" criterias could be used, too. But the actual question would be, what the user is looking for when he searches with "authority high": High quality posts (regardless of actual "buzz", that is google filtered by recency) or rather getting a sense of what opinions are currently flying around for a specific subject (i.e. memeorandum for any subject) or just accuracy of information? I think there are quite a lot of different objectives when searching in technorati and it will be very hard to put all of them under the same authority umbrella. One could also look at past performance against a certain metric. For example on where in the linking cycle of popular links a blog usually is, i.e. if the blog often links to items that become very popular a short time *after* the link is posted, this blog is either an influencer or follows influencers closely (and is thus aggregating influencers..). I don’t know if there is enough signal vs noise here, but my guess is that the small number of blogs watched by memeorandum was picked (automatically or by hand) by this criteria.

Other “past performance” criterias could be used, too.

But the actual question would be, what the user is looking for when he searches with “authority high”: High quality posts (regardless of actual “buzz”, that is google filtered by recency) or rather getting a sense of what opinions are currently flying around for a specific subject (i.e. memeorandum for any subject) or just accuracy of information? I think there are quite a lot of different objectives when searching in technorati and it will be very hard to put all of them under the same authority umbrella.

]]> By: isbo http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13324 isbo Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:26:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13324 I personally think that pure link-based analysis like Pagerank is not very useful for the Blogosphere. What we need is a topic-specific rank (Ask/Teoma does something similar). I personally think that pure link-based analysis like Pagerank is not very useful for the Blogosphere. What we need is a topic-specific rank (Ask/Teoma does something similar).

]]> By: jamessloan http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13305 jamessloan Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:13:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13305 Ah, my mistaken then. Well, above I offered one roughly hewn example of what another methodology might be. Channeling Joyce: I suppose another might be for technorati to amass "rankings" for each blog by logged-in Techorati users -- but again, like eBay's, reputation system, this has many flaws -- chief among them is the danger that the very popularity contest you're trying to avoid is perpetuated. So, maybe Technorati can combine the contextual analysis of "meaningful" proximity words with a Web2.0-inspired grievance system, where blog owners can 'dispute authority rank' and have Technorati users arbiter their disputes by some binary voting mechanism (R)-TM-Copyright :) Ah, my mistaken then. Well, above I offered one roughly hewn example of what another methodology might be. Channeling Joyce: I suppose another might be for technorati to amass “rankings” for each blog by logged-in Techorati users — but again, like eBay’s, reputation system, this has many flaws — chief among them is the danger that the very popularity contest you’re trying to avoid is perpetuated. So, maybe Technorati can combine the contextual analysis of “meaningful” proximity words with a Web2.0-inspired grievance system, where blog owners can ‘dispute authority rank’ and have Technorati users arbiter their disputes by some binary voting mechanism (R)-TM-Copyright :)

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-13301 Michael Arrington Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:01:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/13/technorati-now-has-authority/#comment-13301 I wasn't being "quasi-rhetorical", I am really asking the question. I wasn’t being “quasi-rhetorical”, I am really asking the question.

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