The New Technorati

The Technorati website has just had a major revamp and I must say the end result is glorious. In fact, there’s so much new stuff, it’s really something you have to see for yourself. The short list of features according to the Technorati blog include :

• A major update to our site and to back-end systems.
• Major speed and accuracy improvements in core search.
• Link counting is more accurate and timely.
• A Personalized homepage so you can get a look at all the stuff you care about on one page.
• Technorati has been made understandable to normal people.
• New features, including Discover, which is topic-based, Favorites, which gives you the power to pick your favorite blogs, and Popular, which algorithmically derives the most linked-to items in the last few days.
• Changes to blog profiles
  - get stats about any blog that Technorati tracks,
  including the tags used, posting frequency, traffic, and Technorati
  ranking.
• Plus more to come in the coming weeks and
  months, including better charts, more real-time spam detection and
  elimination, more real-time media indexing, microformats integration, and additional localization and language support.

What I noticed right away was the redesign. Although initially I was thrown off by the different-ness of it, when I settled in and took a long hard look, I realized how well-organized and useful the new homepage really is. Everything’s one click away. For example, all the previously hard-to-locate Technorati tools are now easy to find in one location at the bottom-left of the homepage. You can even update your ping right from the homepage now. Nice. There’s even a new tool available called the Technorati Mini, and it’s definately worth checking out. The Mini is a little pop-up that searches the blogosphere for your search term by listing conversations about your search term in its window, and refreshing that list every 30 seconds. Very cool.