Книга: Blog Search Engines: Technorati, Best of the Web Directory, Milblogging.com, Pubsub, Onkosh, Blogcn, Blogscope, Bloglines, Wikio, Sphere

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Technorati, Best of the Web Directory, Milblogging, Pubsub, Onkosh, Blogcn, Blogscope, Bloglines, Wikio, Sphere, Amatomu, Hubdog, Miner.hu, Rollyo, Icerocket, Yandexblog, Blogpulse. Excerpt: Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Celik was the site's Chief Technologist. Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer's wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, also various open APIs. The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby Award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps. Technorati looks at tags that authors have placed on their websites. These tags help categorize search results, with recent results coming first. Technorati rates each blog's 'authority', the number of unique blogs linking to the blog over the previous six months. In February 2006, Debi Jones pointed out that Technorati's 'State of the Blogosphere' postings, which then claimed to track 27.7 million blogs, did not take into account MySpace blogs, of which she said there were 56 million. As a result, she said that the utili... More: booksllc.net/?id=1046549