September 14, 2005

Welcome to the Blogosphere, Google!

The blogosphere is abuzz with Google's launch of their Blog Search. So far things look pretty interesting, and having a big traditional search player like Google working on blog search is a validation moment for the entire blogosphere.

This will mark a major milestone for the World Live Web. At Technorati, we have a tremendous amount of respect for the Google team and for everything they've done in the world of search. I'm sure that they'll continue to improve over the coming months, perhaps including tags, recent images and links, zeitgeists, blogger tools, and other types of semistructured data. I'm sure that they'll also start indexing the full-text of blog posts, not just the partial text found in most blog feeds.

I welcome the competition. We've got some tricks up our sleeves too - and there's no doubt that in the end, the competition will end up producing more innovation and better services for bloggers and readers.

Welcome to the party, Google!

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Posted by dsifry at September 14, 2005 1:40 AM | TrackBack | View blog reactions
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Knock 'em dead, Dave!

Posted by: Ross Mayfield at September 14, 2005 3:17 AM

Dave, have noticed that Technorati is getting better with it's feature lately too. Good luck and I welcome all the new tricks that you are going to show us all.

Posted by: Tejas Patel at September 14, 2005 3:55 AM

it appears you are fucked. get out soon.

Posted by: anon at September 14, 2005 5:21 AM

Good luck to both sides. I guess the tougher it is for you guys, the better it is for us bloggers!

Posted by: Daryl at September 14, 2005 8:49 AM

Competition is good for everyone, especially those who get competed with.

Posted by: Dave Winer at September 14, 2005 10:53 AM

A little over a month ago, I changed my URL from ridingsun.blogspot.com to www.ridingsun.com. But Technorati won't let me "claim" the new URL. It says it's not claimable.

I emailed tech support about the problem and got no response at all. It's been several weeks now.

If you want to compete with Google, better user support wouldn't be a bad place to start.

Posted by: Gaijin Biker at September 14, 2005 12:40 PM

It doesn't make a good impression when Google Blog Search only indexed my blog up till 26 May 2005!

Rock on Dave, Technorati is way better that Google's service - at this point. But I'm feeling a bit biased right now :-)

Posted by: Richard MacManus at September 14, 2005 1:07 PM

Ban investment for DFJ... I guess it will be a good lesson for Stavropoulos - this game is not a cool version of McKinsey, it actually requires some creativity and IQ ;-)

Posted by: Billy Gaetz at September 14, 2005 3:12 PM

Dave. the 800 lbs gorilla just stepped in. he has more money, brainpower, resources and experience than you and all the other search player combined. Good luck. Sincerely.


Posted by: pg at September 14, 2005 6:29 PM

Google is stepping in your field, and yes it is a 800 lbs gorilla. You have some time in front of you. Go ahead and make the next moves :

(1)Build a Technorati-blogLiveNews à la news.google.com. (
2)You have to step in their field : be more laymen-friendly
(3)Seek for content delivery accelerator services like Akamai.com or whatever
(4) Make me having a technorati tatoo on my blog to act as an signal to provide extra feature (like automatic trackback from my blogroll buddy; a T-Ranking; ...)

You know you have nothing to lose : computer industry is full of second-player-is-the-final-winner. It appends you're the number one.

Good Luck!

Posted by: Martin Lessard at September 14, 2005 7:34 PM

I really like Technorati, the quality of your searches, the tag system, everything. That's still better than the Google Blog Search at the time being. You know why I really seldom used it? It was way too slow. Keep it as fast as it is right now! You can keep your customers and extend the customer base if a search doesn't take over 5 seconds...

Posted by: Guido at September 15, 2005 12:22 AM

Google's Blog Search looks like familiar Google. Technorati has always looked foreign and run too slowly for me to feel compelled to learn what the point of a tag system is.

Posted by: Ichthys at September 15, 2005 9:10 AM

I like the recent improvements in Technorati - the search speed is better, new posts are indexed fast and the blog finder feature is just excellent.

I think Mark Cuban had given enough warnings to Google for "splogs" - It was time for Google to hit back.

Posted by: Digital Inspiration at September 17, 2005 12:31 PM

Google supports searching on tags. e.g.

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=tag:blogsearch

Posted by: Fritz at September 17, 2005 3:17 PM

That search gives a 500 Server Error for me right now - although I'm sure that it is probably a temporary glitch.

Dave

Posted by: David Sifry at September 17, 2005 6:03 PM