Week 6 Thing #14

A blog entry has 73,349 and counting,comments to it....wowwww!
Wonder how the folks at 'boing boing' keep track...is there another web tool for that?Nothing at web2.0 surprises me anymore-I am beaten fair and square!!!

Was checking out technorati,something I had never heard of before I took on this Classroom 2.0 learning assignment.Am I the only one?!!I am okey with the answer being a YES,after all thats what learning is all about:-)

The following is a key feature of technorati(a blog search engine),which helped me understand what its all about.
' Many blogs only send out a small portion or summary of their full postings and leave the full postings on their sites as HTML. Technorati specializes in searching all blogs, not merely those with RSS feeds, and instead of only indexing the RSS feed (often the first few hundred words of an article), Technorati reads all of the HTML code in a blog posting, and also tracks all of the activity around a blog or post such as inbound and outbound links'.

The best way to understand how it works is to use it....doing a search on technorati for Einstein(am going thr a phase!)I realised I could filter the search based on post/tag and language.I could also do so based on 'authority'-the higher the authority,it means more are the number of unique blogs connected to it over the last 6 months....this is not a reflection of the number of links.
Search Posts;tags;a lot of authority=60
Search Posts;tags;any authority=2972
Search Posts;entire post;any authority=48,644
The specification of search based on technorati authority is unique to searching posts only.It does make sifting through a lot of information easier I think.
Multiple words can be used for the search too.
so Einstein,Manhattan search post;entire post;any authority=827. The search got more refined.

I am more familiar with google and so I end up thinking,I can do the same at google too!I am not sure if we can search posts in goggle blog search.
I need to use technorati more to get the google-bias out of my system:-)

P.S- Did u know 'Einstein' is now used as a common noun?!!