Technorati Latest search engine news blog articles from Technorati. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Technorati.html Technorati News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12514 Technorati has a number of initiatives in the works to improve the data in our search indexes and analytics systems. Web spam sites ( splogs ) have long been an issue that we've been working to address. The days when pings came only from legitimate blogs are long gone. Including all of the spam and duplicates, Technorati receives over 8 million pings per day. Over 90% are recognized and blocked as soon as they're received. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:37:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12107 I guess you could say we're on a bit of a roll. In June, we launched Technorati Media, our ad network. At the end of August, we acquired BlogCritics, a great site and community of blog authors. Today, we're launching a private alpha of Technorati Engage, a self-service advertising network for blogs and social media sites. Step one for Technorati Media was to get the network up and running with a smaller group of bloggers. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:47:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11536 On October 1st, we're teaming up to support DonorsChoose.org in their 2nd Annual Blogger Challenge DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to getting our kids the materials, resources and experiences they need to learn. They're challenging the blogosphere to compete to see who can rally the most support for public schools. Across the blogosphere, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:29:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11257 I'm very happy to announce that we released the 2008 State of the Blogosphere report this morning. If you missed my talk at Blog World Expo on Saturday, you can see the study here. We've been publishing this report since Dave Sifry wrote the first one in 2004. This year, we wanted to go beyond the numbers and deliver deeper insights into bloggers and the state of blogging today. In addition to analyzing the data from the Technorati Index, for the first time, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:38:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10743 Late last week part of our indexing system underwent a brief outage. During that time a number of blogs experienced a halt in indexing. Since then, fixes have been implemented and indexing is occurring again. However, because of the outage, a backlog has built up in our spider queues. The spider queues keep track of pings as they come in, so no pings were lost, we just have to process them. We are catching up as quickly as we can, but in the meantime, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:45:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10280 Today, we've announced the acquisition of Blogcritics.org . If you're a blogger, you might be familiar with them (and they've been part of the Technorati Media network since June). If you're not, Blogcritics is an online community of thousands of bloggers, and an award winning site. They're publishing everything from music reviews to articles on politics and technology â€" to a monthly audience of more than a million. Why did we do it? Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:55:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10055 We're committed to improving our search results and the overall user experience and are taking steps to reduce the amount of spam and non-blog entries that make it into the Technorati index. We've made some improvements in how we identify legitimate blogs in order to filter out the spam. What was the problem? Large volumes of splogs (spam blogs) and non-blogs ping us in ever increasing numbers. While only a small percentage get through our filters, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:18:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9914 Technorati is experiencing a problem with our search result updating infrastructure. We continue to crawl and save data, however, post search results are stale and temporarily stuck at about 3pm Pacific Fri. Aug 15. Link results (reactions) are stuck at Thu. Aug 14. We have identified the root cause and are actively working on the issue. We expect to have the system caught up during the evening hours. No data is being lost, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:09:18 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9770 I was in Chicago last week (anyone who knows me knows not to get me started on my former city: the lake, the food, the Cubs') to participate in ad-tech . If you've never attended, the event is exactly that: a conference for digital marketing. The content and speakers struck me as particularly good this time around, with a major focus on social media. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:00:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9527 Technorati is bringing you that much closer to attending Web 2.0 Expo NYC next month â€" we've got free tickets to give away! As a media sponsor for the event, Technorati has complimentary promotional tickets for the conference taking place Sept. 16-19 at the Javits Center in NYC. For your chance to snag a ticket, email WebExNY@technorati.com by August 12, 2008. You'll be entered into the drawing, and notified by August 14. Good luck! Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:22:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7585 It's been a while â€" â€" we've had our heads down focused on building the business, so we've been a little quiet lately. I wanted to bring things up to date with what's new today as well as fill you in on our core search business. So we're launching an ad network' Why? Technorati was founded to help bloggers succeed and to bring audiences to blog content. Given our unique position of running a blog search engine, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:25:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7292 We strive to provide a great user experience and that includes fast page load times. Last summer we worked very hard on this effort and for the past many months we have been able to achieve this goal. Well, I'm disappointed that I have to tell you what your probably already know, we have stumbled a bit the past two weeks. Page load times have been on the rise over the last week and, in a couple instances, the site has been nearly unusable. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:58:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6418 Nowhere have we seen a bigger impact of blogging and social media on the American political landscape than on the 2008 presidential election. Candidate appearances formerly confined to a small town are uploaded to YouTube and seen by millions. Conversations once shared by small groups spread instantly and globally. Facebook and MySpace are as important as New Hampshire and Iowa. According to Yahoo, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 19 May 2008 22:43:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4679 D'Technology Blog posted today So you've installed WordPress 2.5, now you want to show Technorati links on the dashboard. Here's the code... read the rest If you're stuck on an old release because you didn't want to lose those inbound links in the administrative console, you're now free to move up to 2.5. Because the of the widespread hacking of legacy WordPress installations, we strongly urge you to upgrade ASAP. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:45:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4502 This is a follow up on our post regarding a problem affecting thousands of WordPress blogs, Patch or Upgrade Your Wordpress Installation, Now . WordPress has since released version 2.5 . However, we've noticed that a large number of blogs remain vulnerable to the security issue addressed by the 2.3.3 release. Blogs that have been compromised by this security vulnerability are typified by having links to spam destinations inserted onto the blog page. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:21:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1725 Technorati has seen a number of blogs exploited by a recently announced WordPress vulnerability. The fix for it is simple: upgrade your installation or patch it. If you're running a WordPress installation, please read about the WordPress 2.3.3. release to review your options. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:21:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1726 Sorry about the goofy title, I'm in grave need of levity now due to some indexing troubles we had this past week and the ensuing recovery effort. We're currently in the midst of repairing most of the effected data but I wanted to share what's going on with it. Technorati's spiders were shutdown for several hours on Thursday and various intervals since then while we investigated a number of anomalies that were appearing in our data; essentially, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:31:58 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1727 Over the holiday break we found and fixed a bug that inflated authority counts for certain blogs. The blogs affected were those on domains that also have linked-to sub-domains. The links to the sub-domains were erroneously counting toward the blog authority of the blog on the parent domain. Since Technorati Authority is a calculation of how much attention is being paid to a blog and the posts beneath it, we do not include sub-domains. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:37:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=968 If you ping Technorati directly via our web form , it reduces the number of moving parts required to process the ping. It also offers a crawl-time advantage to Technorati members who have claimed the URL that they are pinging for; those pings go into a higher priority queue. However, we realize that most bloggers rely on the XML-RPC ping capabilities of their blog content management systems (CMS) and, much of the time, that works just fine. However, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:43:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1012 Do you hate having to remember passwords, logging into lots of different services, each with a different password? User-centric identity is a fancy way to describe putting you in control of the logins and passwords required to authenticate your identity on different services; this is an idea that Technorati is fully behind. Technorati launched OpenID support in October 2007 for blog claiming and followed up with identity provider support two months later. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:08:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38 Those who have been following Technorati over the years may remember the basic proposition emblazoned on the web site, What's Happening on the Web Right Now . One of the exciting things about working at Technorati (particularly if you're a data geek like me) is that the web is changing in real time. Searching it in real time and discovering the significant happenings realizes the promise of the web to catalyze and connect us. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:42:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=39 In a few short years, weblogs have come to represent the fundamental connected conversation of our pubic lives. The numbers involved have become very large: at Technorati we index over 65,000 blog posts an hour along with 2,800 fresh links a minute. Worldwide, we index over 100 million blogs. We built Technorati on blog search, helping bloggers, readers, journalists and brands understand the online conversation on a topic: who's talking, who's influential, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:07:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=40 My first two months at Technorati are in the books, and in that time, a number of you have asked me "what is Technorati up to?" or "now that you're on board, what are your plans?" Today, I'm happy to introduce a new Technorati.com that answers both those questions. And it really is new: it leverages the best of Technorati's definitive resources to offer an evolved, discovery-driven experience that is more powerful, more relevant, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:56:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=41 Forty-eight hours, a lot of links and a fist full of poker chips later, Blog World Expo 2007 comes to a successful close. I'd like to congratulate Rick Calvert and the entire Blog World crew for putting on a very impressive inaugural event that brought together intrepid bloggers and blog businesses. Technorati was happy to support the cause, and it was great meeting the core users who make our service so relevant. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:20:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=42 Heard about the upcoming Blog World Expo ? I hope so, since it's being billed as the world's largest blogging conference and it's happening next week in Vegas! As if any of you actually needed an excuse to go to Sin City midweek, here you go: the globe's biggest meet-up of bloggers, vloggers, podcasteres, broadcasters, producers, media outlets and Web-savvy businesses. What better time and place to network with fellow online publishers, companies, and media folk? Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:33:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=43 No doubt about it: my first week on the job was a whirlwind of education and discovery. As our VP of marketing, Derek Gordon, said to me: "Welcome to the Blogosphere!" I promised that I would spend my first weeks on the job really listening and over my first seven days as CEO of Technorati I've already heard much that is instructive and useful. First and foremost, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:06:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=44 With office key card in hand, network ID and password assigned, and a new Post-it pad on my desk,it's truly official: today is my first day on the job as Technorati's new President & CEO. While starting any new job always has its immediate challenges, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:23:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=45 I admit it: I'm in no way impartial where Technorati is concerned. In my view, Technorati is a great company poised to achieve even greater heights. So it gives me great pleasure to tell you that how we get to that next great place is now the job Technorati's newest team member: Richard Jalichandra , who begins work today as Technorati President & Chief Executive Officer. This is a very exciting moment for Technorati. As you all know, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:20:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=46 As readers of this blog may recall, the July power outage at our 365 Main Street facility knocked Technorati's web site off the 'net. Long prior to that event, we were already making plans to vacate 365 Main and move the infrastructure hosted there to another facility; that incident hardened our resolve to do so with all available haste. Since then, we've been busily migrating functionality to another data center. Most of the time, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:30:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=47 There were a lot of developments over the past week in the emerging field of conversational marketing, something we first wrote about last January and have been working on with bloggers, brands and agencies ever since. Here's a quick summary of what we've been up to, with details below: -Auto manufacturer Scion launched a new conversational marketing campaign with Technorati aggregating conversation about independent film festivals and films , Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:14:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=48 Technorati collects millions of blog posts every day too many for the average human being to even try to track. As a Technorati power user, I've been fascinated by just how much I can find out using Technorati Search . If you're like me and you know how to construct just the right search, you can winnow the results to just what you are looking for. That being said, I've read a lot of great feedback on Technorati, Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:15:25 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49 We at Technorati are continually looking for ways to improve our service. We've heard many of your comments, concerns, and suggestions, and now we've revamped our Support Section. We hope these new improvements and features make it easier for everyone to find the information they need, and help each other out in the process. One new feature is the combined search box that helps users discover answers in both our monitored Discussions and updated FAQs. Search Engines News SEO News Technorati Technorati Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:58:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=50 We are performing maintenance on our spiders for the next few hours. New posts will not be available during this time. We expect to return to normal operations by 9PM PDT. At the conclusion of the maintenance, we will resume spidering and will pick up from where we left off. No data will be lost as a result of this maintenance. Thank you. Update: as of 10:15PM PDT we are spidering all new and old pings. Thanks for your patience. 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