At first I stared at Technorati for about 20 minutes, with NOTHING sinking in. That's embarrassing to admit, but I'm admitting it anyway.
The Technorati Tour page linked as a discovery resource says that they're trying to make Technorati useful to the non-expert, but all I see is a search engine with a lot of ads. Is it just me, am I using it wrong? I'm definitely one of those non-experts they're talking about, but I see a big gulf between me and Technorati.
Maybe I could just consider Technorati a blogs-only search engine? Google can search blogs, but Technorati can search blogs "about" something. (Now that's an interesting thing libraries are good at thinking about... rather than keywords, what is it this blog *about*?) So if it's just a search engine, then I really really don't enjoy looking at all those ads! I also really am distracted by the fact that there is always a line of ads right at the bottom of the screen, suggesting that my search only came up with two results... I know there's a line above the search screen saying "2,583 posts tagged learning 2.0," but visually, my brain is registering only two search results. This does not feel good!
To answer question #1, yes the results are different for posts and blogs... that makes sense to me. In fact, a lot of technorati makes sense. After all, it's meant to "make sense" of the written world of blogs, right?
As for question #2, the "popular" blogs, searches and tags sets are neat - if what you want is a snapshot, and are essentially just browsing. I think I want Technorati to be more of a tool, and I'm having trouble getting a handle on it.
Yes, I think that's just about it. I'm having trouble finding an angle where Technorati serves me. Even so, I still think I'm not quite up for the challenge of setting up a Technorati profile and claiming my blogs. I just don't feel like it would serve me right now. maybe that will change?
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