Brand New Technorati Layout

May 23, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · Comment 

Technorati founder and CEO Dave Sifry

Technorati founder and CEO Dave Sifry noted on his own blog entry this morning, “The world has changed.”

The world is changing every second, Technorati has introduce a brand new layout and search engine which many believed that they’re reacting towards Google, it used to be that Technorati is the gateway for information from blogs all around the world, until big brother decided to launch their very own blog searching engine too. Technorati no longer enjoy the number spot and I guess that is the reason why they’ve change for the best.

I still prefer the old layout.

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Technorati New Ranking System

May 6, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · 1 Comment 

Technorati New Ranking System

Technorati made some fundamental changes to their blog ranking system, the new system is called “Authority” rank which reflect a blog’s position within blog sphere. Some of the major changes are the elimination of multiple linking from one blog, meaning to say if you happen to have 5 links from one blog, it would literally count as one point for the new Authority ranking system, something Technorati should have address it long time ago. Another major improvement is the tracking of links within the 180 days, if a blog has been abandon by the blogger or is in hibernation mode then the link to your blog would be redundant and a minus one point from your Authority points.
Read more from the official site

Currently GeckoandFly has an Authority ranking of 5,521, which trail behind the world’s top two blog - Engadget with an Authority of 27,491 while Boing Boing at 20,856. Well, most of my links are from the popularity of blogger templates but do remember that these links do not generate money, nor does it push my blog ranking higher. It consume more bandwidth than a normal blog and CTR for Google Adsense is terrible low. Well, blogging should be fun making money should not be the main agenda! Happy blogging.

What is your score?

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Technorati Blog Search Engine Update

July 11, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment 

Technorati just announced that they are going to release a new search engine, which is widely believed to be more accurate and speedy. I’m not a big fan of Technorati, but I do optimize my blog for technoranti, they’re the best blog search engine out there with proven results. In term of accuracy, Google blog beats technorati hand down. If you need exposure, ping your blog at Technoranti. Maybe Technorati need a digg like system, where user are able to rate a blog.

“We’re doing a major rollout of our link counting system this week which will make it more accurate and show updates more quickly.”

“Sorry if you see some mess over the next few weeks as we fully roll this new system into production.”

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Primary language when it comes to blogging

May 2, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment 

Technorati has a break down of the major language according to the number of post online. Surprisingly English is the second most used language with Japanese language top the chart with 37%.

Mandarin (Chinese) language occupy the third spot, and climbing slowly up the chart and predicted to overtake english language within a few years time. This goest to show the importants of using services such as Altavista’s Babel Fish Translation and Google’s Translation.

technoranti primary language blogging

In Summary:

  • The blogosphere is multilingual, and deeply international
  • English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006.
  • Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly.
  • Chinese language blogging, while continuing to grow on an absolute basis, has begun to decline as an overall percentage of the posts that Technorati tracks over the last 6 months
  • Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.
  • The Korean language is underrepresented in this analysis
  • Language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown.
  • Technorati now tracks more than 100 Million author-created tags and categories on blog posts.
  • The rel-tag microformat has been adopted by a number of the large tool makers, making it easy for people to tag their posts. About 47% of all blog posts have non-default tags or categories associated with them.

Source: Technorati

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