Technorati

Technorati is a search engine, but has a limited search realm: only blog space.

The basic search service allows a user to do a free search (with booleans) in the blogs they aggregate. Interestingly also the bookmarks from del.icio.us/furl and the images from flickr are presented in the results. The results from del.icio.us/furl and flickr are however based on the tags related to those microcontent types. This search service is also geared towards MicroContent as one can search just for tags (or multiple).

A variety of predefined searches can be carried out: the most popular, tags, related tags, popular blogs, books, news, movies.

On the publisher side they have an interesting feature that allows them to close the loop: claim your blog. This allows publishers to add a photo to their blog.

The results are presented in inverse time order: the most recent items appear first.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, it uses blogs, images and bookmarks, but they also recognize reviews for books and movies;
• Data Outside - YES, all the data is aggregated either from users of third party service providers;
• Licenses - NO, they only have a license for the whole site;
• Feeds Galore - YES, the user can create a watchlist from any query and get it delivered through rss;
• Web API’s - YES, developers can interact in a variety of ways;
• Desktop Integration - YES (reluctantly), it is just standard blog-format, so any RSS reader can be used;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - YES, it uses the tag-field in three MicroContent types to bring it together;
• lc Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; service; search;