Here's an interesting article with David Sifry, CEO of Technorati, which discusses the technology behind the website and its plans to compete with bigshots like Google.
Tracking the net (Source: Red Herring)
In the words of the company themselves, "Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs." In fact the website is able to track what is being said on the web within minutes of content being published. Test it out: try and find this article on the site!
Here are some stats from the Technorati site: "Today, Technorati tracks over three million weblogs* up from 100,000 two years ago. The Pew Internet study estimates that about 11%, or about 50 million, of Internet users are regular blog readers. A new weblog is created every 5.8 seconds, which means there are about 15,000 new blogs a day. Bloggers — people who write weblogs — update their weblogs regularly; there are about 275,000 posts daily, or about 10,800 blog updates an hour."
* 4.8 million latest figure.
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