Comments on: Technorati Launch ‘Topics’

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:26:24 +0000

I share the same sentiment with many commenters before me. It seems like only the “top blogs” will be featured, so my own blogs (along with most other people’s blog) will have little chance of being featured. Honestly, it’s like just another type of Digg.

I hardly get any traffic from Technorati as it is – maybe a few clicks a month at the very most. I get more search engine traffic than from Technorati.

They should find a way to feature the “little guys” without a lot of authority. Low authority does not mean bad content!

By: HighFivez.com

HighFivez.com — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:58:54 +0000

We offer a similar service but rely on users to provide the content. Check it out and let us know what you think.

By: mon@rch

mon@rch — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:01:13 +0000

I think this is great and plan on going to check it out. Although, looks like the many nature blogs get overlooked again. I assume they fall under the life section!

By: Simon Ward

Simon Ward — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:56:01 +0000

I hardly saw a blog with authority under 500 in the few minutes I scanned…so basically it’s just another medium that will help established blogs get more traffic.

By: Sheila at Family Travel

Sheila at Family Travel — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:29:39 +0000

I looked through it but don’t see how it can be useful. You can’t drill down far enough in the topics, they’re too broad, and why would I want to spend time staring vacuously at a new blog post coming up every few seconds?

If it’s supposed to help me get traffic, I fail to see how one will know when the right set of eyes (ones interested in my blog’s topic) will just happen to be sitting there staring when my post comes up.

By: johno

johno — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:56:04 +0000

I like the concept, but I think that if it’s going to be of any real value, then there need to be more narrowly defined topics; or, perhaps user-defined topics. Could make an interesting screen-saver too, or a ticket-type widget.

By: A Taylor

A Taylor — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:03:04 +0000

Technorati is truly struggling at the moment and are trying tons of new ideas to see which ones get traction.

I agree with earlier posters in that this feature is really not useful in its current format. Hopefully Technorati (in their struggle to stay relevant) will make frequent updates to this feature based on the feedback the Blogosphere is giving them.

By: Vincent McBurney

Vincent McBurney — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:24:11 +0000

It’s kind of like sitting on the side of the road and watching cars go past.

Another example of Technorati searching for a way to innovate and not quite coming up with something useful. Previous underwhelming changes have gone – the ticker, the WTF (where’s the fire) both seem to have gone. This might be useful if it had a much bigger hierarchy of topics or let you customise the topic that appeared on your Technorati homepage or sorted results by recent posts with high authority.

Still no answer to the question – where does Technorati go from here?

By: Ankesh Kothari

Ankesh Kothari — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:20:57 +0000

I did spend 2 minutes to check it out.

1. Posts from blogs with authority 5 were up there too. But the frequency of posts with low authority is less.

2. The auto-scrolling is way too fast to make it worthwhile. You can’t even read the title before a new post is shown.

3. I think we will be seeing a lot more bloggers tag their posts with the 6 technorati topics.

4. My opinion, its a good idea with poor implementation. Its not worthwhile for readers because of the speed of new posts. And the quality of the posts look OK too. And its not worthwhile for the bloggers either – again because of the speed of new posts. Their posts will show up for all of 25 seconds!

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:09:26 +0000

it’s nice. :) but very like Digg although it has a little bit longer refresh rate :D

By: Michal Levy

Michal Levy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:38:41 +0000

I don’t see how I or my blog (http://www.israeldoula.com/blog.html) could benefit from this. I was hoping that they would make some more specific topics, but they kept it all very general. I guess I would fall under the category ‘life’. It’s a long way from going to life, to health, to pregnancy and birth. I’d still have to dig through hundreds and hundreds of blogs on their list to get something about my specific topic.

And things that I write on my blog wouldn’t even get listed, even though there aren’t many blogs like mine, there are many other blogs in the general health section that have much higher authority than I do, so they get listed in stead.

By: pelf

pelf — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:37:23 +0000

If that’s the case, the higher your authority, the more chances you’d be featured, did I get it correctly? The way I see it, that’s basically another way of saying that only the A-listers get to share the cake =)

By: Marko Novak

Marko Novak — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:34:31 +0000

Looks like digg.

By: Chris Jacobson

Chris Jacobson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:40:31 +0000

Nice feature… I could see this getting a lot of use.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:11:29 +0000

Nice new feature, even though I don't think my blog will benefit from that feature because it has little authority. Why does Technorati only cater to the big blogs nowadays? In the old days, I'd actually get a couple hits a day from them. Now, nothing.