Category Archives: Search

Technorati mention on Charlie Rose

Glenn Reynolds: “If I had a big organization, like say if I ran The New York Times or some piece of it, I would pay somebody — and you wouldn’t have to pay them a lot, it’s not very hard — to just plug the URL for every New York Times story into Technorati which will then give you a list of every blog that links to that story and see what people say. And if you find a bunch of people saying there’s a mistake in it, I’d run a correction *snap* just like that and I’d credit somewhere on the website the blogs that pointed it out.

Technorati office photographs

Last Friday I took some photographs of the Technorati office space to share with our community. We are located in what used to be a printing press building. What a perfect location blogging company! We even have a printing press in our building lobby. Enjoy!…

Ask Jeeves purchases Bloglines

Ask Jeeves officially purchased Bloglines. Mark Fletcher and his team will move to the Ask Jeeves remote office in Los Gatos where Mark will be GM of Bloglines. Teoma will power Bloglines search. Bloglines will gather and monetize users’ attention data for contextual advertising. Bloglines launched 18 months ago in June 2003 Official Announcements Ask Jeeves. “Ask Jeeves plans to leverage these technologies across its search and portal brands, and as of today, Bloglines’ Web search capability will be powered by Ask Jeeves’ search technology.” Ask Jeeves Weblog. “There will be no short-term changes to Bloglines that weren’t already…

Ask Jeeves buying Bloglines?

Mary Hodder reports Ask Jeeves is buying Bloglines and Mark Fletcher will be a Jeeves employee on Monday. Is this true? Mark Fletcher is presenting a 20-minute case study this Tuesday on RSS syndication, ad splicing, and blogging at the Media Center event. Perhaps the announcement is meant to coincide with the conference and Mark will use this time to talk about the new Bloglines. Update: Bloglines acquisition is official. Supposedly announced on Friday with an embargo of midnight tonight….

Technorati Tags cleans up, adds RSS output

I have only been at Technorati for one day but we already have two new features I am proud to talk about. If you have an API key you can now receive a RSS feed containing the latest weblog posts with a given tag using TagQuery. Our tags page is now more compliant with web standards through the use of lists and emphasis elements. Tantek posted about the decisions behind his changes to the page’s markup. It has been interesting to see all the different uses of tags from companies interested in being included in Technorati’s tags pages. If you…

Feedster redesign

Feedster has a new user interface on their web pages. A definite improvement, and the redesign helps users start using the site right away in varying capacities. The home page is not valid XHTML nor valid CSS….