Technorati

I've had a bit of a look at this Technorati business. I tried the search term "learning 2.0" - as a phrase and I got 317 results in blogs, and 315 under directory. The results looked pretty similar there to me. I got 543 under posts, I thought this would be more, and only 125 in tags. I'm not sure what all that means, except that it's a good idea to try a few different methods of searching in these sites with "user generated" content and tagging, as people will tag things by what is meaningful to them.


[kirstenstaggingtest]


The above is my failed mission to manually add a technorati tag to this post. The good news is that technorati seems to pick up the labels from blogger to use as tags. I searched for my first post which I labelled "silly greetings", and it came up in the results. Obviously some time is required for blogs to be "pinged" for results to appear. I guess I'll try searching for my test above in a couple of days to see if it gets picked up.

A tip on this front, make sure when you search in tags you select "any authority" (it defaults to "some authority" as I guess most of our blogs won't be bookmarked much, and therefore won't be in the authority ratings yet.