Wow, logged onto Technorati today, and such changes. Really was surprised by the new look:

technorati changes

You can read on the Technorati blog about the changes. This was apparently the result of six months of work, and completely changes how you search on Technorati. No more messing around with searching by tags vs. keywords vs. the blog directory.

Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere to surface the conversations that were most interesting to them, today they are increasingly coming to our site to get the 360 degree context of the Live Web – blogs of course, but also user-generated video, photos, podcasts, music, games and more. They want all the good stuff out there, all in real-time, and we’re using the power of 80 million bloggers to help organize it and make it fun to browse; using the wisdom of crowds as a mirror on ourselves.

I can see that point. The web has changed quite a bit of late, and it’s important for companies like Technorati to change along with them so that users can find what they are looking for.

You can still limit yourself to searching only blogs if you prefer.

They’ve added a ticker, which may not please a lot of people. I think it’s pretty ugly. I don’t especially like tickers anyhow, but green on black in particular doesn’t work for me.

We’ll just have to wait and see what users think of these changes. Not everyone has been happy with the recent changes. PayPerPost, for example, has dropped the use of Technorati rankings for the time being.

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