Technorati

This week I had an opportunity to learn more about Technorati, which is a search tool and leading authority on blogs. Technorati currently indexes 112 million blogs and tracks over 250 million pieces of tagged material. I began my exploration by first watching a videocast tour of the site, which highlighted many of its’ new features. I then began performing various searches using the phrase Learning 2.0. Results differed depending on the type of search that I used. I received the most hits, (20,136) when I did a keyword search in Blog Posts. Using the Advanced Search feature, I then searched the same phase under Tags and under Blog Directory. There were 1,339 posts that used Learning 2.0 as a tag and only 933 blogs “about” that particular topic.
Finally, I took a look at the popular blog searches and tags. I guess what I found most interesting were the blogs from other countries, like Japan & Germany.