Technorati

Technorati offers a search tool that searches any blog that has been registered with Technorati. I have registered my blog, but have not gained any authority yet. I think I will go back to Technorati and explore how blogs gain "authority." I proved, in the post below and the sidebar, that I have a blog on Technorati, but when I search for myself I do not find myself. Sounds like an existential crisis. I am guessing that I either did some little thing wrong or that it takes some time for a person or computer to add newly registered blogs to the search. I did, however, find blogs of some other people I know, using some of the tags I assigned to my blog, such as "Library 2.0" and "23 Things."

Following the advice in the exercises, I did try to search under blog posts, blogs, and tags, and each search gets a very different first screen and a very different number of entries. However, searching for blog posts, tags, and videos all brought up a video of Helene Blowers on the first page, and searching blogs generated her blogs on the first page.

I think this tool has some use, though other search engines find blogs. As blogs become more ubiquitous, and as someone might want to search only blogs for some term or terms, Technorati would be a good choice. I suspect that it has a limited utility,but a growing utility.