Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. As of April 2007, Technorati indexes over 75 million weblogs. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Google search is the worlds most popular search engine. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Google, Inc. ... Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... IceRocket [1] is an Internet search engine specialized in searching weblogs (or blogs). ... Web indexing (or Internet indexing) includes back-of-book-style indexes to individual websites or an Intranet, and the creation of keyword metadata to provide a more useful vocabulary for Internet or onsite search engines. ... A portmanteau (IPA pronunciation: ) or blend is a word or morpheme which fuses two or more words or parts of words to give a combined meaning. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, and speculate on a variety of different ideas. ...

Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik is the site's Chief Technologist. Dave Sifry at the Web 2. ... Headquarters (HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Tantek Çelik at the 2006 OReilly Emerging Telephony Conference. ...

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, as well as various open APIs. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... A software developer is a person who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming or a specialty of project managing. ... Linuxcare (now Levanta) was a San Francisco-based company founded in 1998 by Dave Sifry, Art Tyde and Dave LaDuke. ... Official Wi-Fi logo Wi-Fi, popularly known as an acronym for wireless fidelity (see below for origin), but, in actuality is simply a play on the term Hi-Fi, was originally a brand licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe the embedded technology of wireless local area networks... Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... API may refer to: In computing, application programming interface In petroleum industry, American Petroleum Institute In education, Academic Performance Index This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show.^[1] It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.^[2] South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc. ... Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the worlds best websites. The awards have been given out since 1996. ...

Criticism

In February 2006, Debi Jones pointed out that Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere" postings, which claimed that they track 27.7 million blogs, failed to take into account MySpace blogs, of which she says there are 56 million. As a result, she says the utility of Technorati as a gauge for blog popularity is questionable.^[3] However by March 2006, Aaron Brazell pointed out that Technorati had started tracking MySpace "blogs".^[4] MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ...

In May 2007, Andrew Orlowski writing for the tech tabloid TheRegister criticized Technorati's May 2007 redesign. He suggests that Technorati has decided to focus more on returning image thumbnails instead of blog results. He also claims that Technorati never worked in the past and the alleged refocus is "a tacit admission that it's given up on its original mission".^[5] Andrew Orlowski (born 1966) is a British columnist for the online IT newspaper The Register. ... A Tech Tabloid is a type of news media that mainly concentrates on technology news: science, IT, semiconductors, telecoms and related issues, but also takes on a less formal and more humorous approach than traditional technology publications such as EE Times or EDN. They are professional in nature, though, rather... The Register (El Reg to its staff) is a British technology news website focusing on the computer industry. ...

References

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External links

• Technorati
• Technorati's own blog
• Technorati management team official page, reference for much of the above