Lesson #14

For this lesson we need to play around with Technorati. The first excercise is about typing "learning 2.0" in the advanced search feature in blog posts. I got 2,626 results. The next part of the exercise whas to search "learning 2.0" in the advanced tag area and compare it withthe othe rsearch. This time I recieved 752 results.

I was unable to search using the blog directory, as I did not see a search function for this area.

I messed around with the popular feature but came away unimpressed. It claims the site boingboing.net is the most popular blog in the world according to technorati, but I highly doubt that. Most popular with those who use technorati, but not the world. I also limited the popular feature to games (of course) and the results were pathetic. The discription for this area is "The video games people are talking about right now, ordered by new links to Amazon in the last 48 hours". I would think they would use sales rank, but that is just me. Out of the 28 titles listed, only 2-3 were games. The rest were wires and game cases. Not much buzz surrounding those.

I also looked around at the popular videos and I decided I wouldn't watch any of them. Most of them seemes to be about Simon Cowell though.

In the popular movies area, these are listed by "The movies people are talking about right now, ordered by new links to the Internet Movie Database in the last 48 hours." Seeing as how IMDB is owned by Amazon, again, why not just use sales rank. the titles were new and decent, though.