I don’t mean to be a pill, but what does technorati do that is useful or interesting? I have yet to “get it”.
I find BlogPulse better for getting a snapshot of the Blogosphere (boy that term is getting tired, isn’t it?) and of course Feedster for performing direct queries (when Google isn’t enough).
A lot of people swear by it, so I’m sure I’m missing something. Perhaps someone can enlighten me and explain what all the buzz is about.
Well, I’m not sure that I can entirely answer that question, as I’m obvoiusly biased, but I think a significant difference is the speed of indexing. The median time from weblogs post to index is 7 minutes – which means that the cosmos is something you can keep checking – in real time – and participate with others in both reverse links (link cosmos) and keyword search.
Another big difference is that we’re covering a significantly larger set of blogs than anyone else – over 1.6M weblogs. That makes us between 4x – 15x more complete with any other service as well – so you get as complete coverage as possible.
Dave
Thanks Dave. I also noticed that you put the Search button back and a few other new cool features. I think I was underestimating the value of the ‘ping’ model. I’m going to try to jump into the BOF here at Etech and I may have a rebuttal to my own post after that. 🙂