Redesigned Technorati Broadens Search Capabilities
The blog search engine Technorati has launched a new design and a number of under the hood improvements that move the site away from the niche blog market and into the wider world of online searching.
CEO Dave Sifry outlines the changes on his blog, which he says are largely in response to Technorati’s increasingly mainstream user base.
“Whereas folks using Technorati a couple of years ago were predominantly coming to us to search the blogosphere,” Sifry writes, “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.”
The revamped Technorati has incorporated better support for tagging and streamlined the search options for those of us who could never quite understand the difference between a keyword search, a tag search and blog directory search.
Those previously separate search options are now rolled together into a single search.
For those addicted to the old blog search index, there’s still a way to do it, in fact it even has its own subdomain now: s.technorati.com.
The interface redesign gives Technorati a slightly more colorful look and includes a new “ticker” that scrolls at the top of the page listing the most recent search terms from other users.
Overall the changes make Technorati somewhat easier to grok and move the site away from just blog searches to a wider view of what might be best termed time sensitive searches.
The new look for the Technorati homepage.
The simplified Blog Search only page.
