Comments on: What do you think of Technorati’s Upgrade?

By: k.d.

k.d. — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:36:15 +0000

I’m new to Technorati (two weeks), I think they’re great, but I can’t figure out the rankings. I found many other blogs that had the exact same ranking as me. But happily, I’m now in the top 900,000! Wahoo!

By: James Edwards

James Edwards — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:49:09 +0000

Darren, can you do more blogs on technorati? My football blog is squibkick.com and the technorati tags are at the end of my blog, but is that helping drive traffic to the blog? signed, the rookie to blogging.

By: Gerard @ Interweb World

Gerard @ Interweb World — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:03:54 +0000

I’m not so fussed on the design, it’s a bit hard on the old eyes. Guess we’ll have to get used to it or start looking for an alternative…!

By: milo

milo — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:30:52 +0000

Tech looks very scrambled now, ’cause of the different coloured bars, it’s strange they give up their “Green”…

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:21:15 +0000

I like the upgrade. It makes the site look more polished and user friendly. Still, nothing has really changed.

By: Random Good Stuff

Random Good Stuff — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:10:18 +0000

It too me a while to get used to it!

By: Retrospector

Retrospector — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:24:46 +0000

I’m not very picky about the L&F on most sites so long as I can easily find the information I’m looking for. Since they didn’t really move much around on the pages I frequent, I think it’s just fine.

On a side note, this post mainly caught my eye because I’ve been checking technorati quite a bit lately. I’ve gone from a rank of roughly ~80K to ~25k in the last week because of one post getting picked up by lifehacker, then by dozens of others. I’m amazed at how fast the site got launched up the Technorati rank ladder, but I have to give Darren some credit for the success since this is my main source of blogging tips…and he’s probably a good 4-5 of the links. :) Thanks Darrren!

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:52:54 +0000

It’s nice. As mentioned above, the discover page improvements are a boon.

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:26:50 +0000

I posted my comments earlier this morning: http://www.anotherblogger.com/2006/07/24/technorati-3-an-update/

By: John

John — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:40:35 +0000

The “Discover” page puts a lot more info in front of you in a compact form. I like the tab format for the subcategories especially.

Meanwhile, the new icons and “primary colors” scheme make me feel like I’m playing The Sims: Blog City. Not necessarily a bad thing.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:15:54 +0000

It’s a lot better than the last update, they finally got rid of the hello kitty design, it’s still a little cluttered, but behind the scenes it’s really quite amazing…a big dose of Web 2.0 I guess, but it’s super quick…and we’ve got blog rankings back again for all minor blogs!!!! Yae!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:02:11 +0000

I like the new design quite a bit. It seems faster. I’m guessing that some of the speed is that people are clicking on fewer pages because they can get to things easily from that main page without needing to click to a new page first. It might be a little cartoony, but all in all, I think it is much better.

Plus, Technorati seems to be doing a better job of indexing and updating links recently. Double bonus.

By: Alan @ Healthy Diet Podcast

Alan @ Healthy Diet Podcast — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:52:53 +0000

I like it, nice color scheme. But I miss the tabs towards the top of the search box. There’s a pull down menu instead. It also seems much faster.

Alan

By: brem

brem — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:28:35 +0000

I don’t care much about the design, as long as they scan my rss feed properly ;)

By: John T P

John T P — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:16:16 +0000

I appreciate all the new features and changes by Technorati but I still prefer the older design.