Yahoo Developing Technorati-Like Tool?
There are rumbles out there Yahoo is developing a Technorati-like tool. Steve Rubel captured a couple screen images that clearly show Yahoo is working on an RSS search tool. The test site, however, was quickly taken down. You knew it had to be a matter of time before someone (Yahoo, Google, Microsoft) came up with a better blog search engine. Technorati had a perfect Google-like opportunity to come out of nowhere to become the default blog search engine but it is struggling under the weight of its own popularity. Mark Cuban's Ice Rocket looks to be trying to fill the void but it still requires more work (interface, presentation of results) before it can be taken seriously. I'm a bigger fan of Blogdigger, but I don't know too much about them other than it was started in 2003 by Greg Gershman.
July 29th, 2005 at 9:14 am
Hi Mark, I'm glad to hear you like Blogdigger. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about our system, if you'd like. I'd be interested in hearing what aspects of our system you find that set us apart from the others, and where we can improve. Thanks!