Happy birthday Technorati
Three years ago, on November 27, 2002, Technorati was introduced to the world. Technorati started as a way for Dave Sifry to track who was talking about his blog online and the project eventually grew into a company of 30+ employees.
The blogosphere often gets caught up in the buzz of the moment, so here is a little history from Technorati in 2002:
The first Technorati 100. Scripting News was on top with links from 598 blogs and Boing Boing was #4 with links from 408 inbound blogs.
12,739 blogs watched in its first week.
$5 a year for a watchlist
Photo by Earthman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pictured above is the home of Technorati’s servers one year ago. I call it “the liquor store colo” because it has that back of the liquor store feel to it. I took a tour of Technorati’s new hosting facility, 365 Main, a few weeks ago. Technorati is now hosted in a converted tank manufacturing plant.
Building upon my summary of Technorati’s first two years, below are some personally selected highlights from Technorati’s third year.
Technorati Japan, is announced as Technorati’s first international endeavor.
Technorati tags introduced. Folksonomy applied to individual blog posts.
First web spam summit bringing together key search engine publishers and indexers.
One billion links tracked.
Related tags launched.
10 million blogs tracked.
One million distinct post tags.
Major redesign launched.
Language-specific search introduced.
Technorati Mobile launched
Technorati search results integrated into Newsweek article pages.
Blog Finder introduced. Tagging and folksonomy applied at the individual blog level.
20 million blogs tracked.
Technorati Mini introduced, featuring updated results in a smaller window every minute.
[Disclaimer: I work for Technorati but this post was created from my own will and contains my personal opinion and perspectives.]