Saturday, May 24, 2008

#14 Technorati

Personally, I've never been a big fan of Technorati. I've found that if I am looking for general information and do not generally care where the resources came from that the results were satisfactory. However, if you are looking for specific information, say from a specific blog, Technorati is not the most efficient site out there.

Perhaps the biggest problem is that it does not do combined word searches. Therefore, a site like Library Garden, doesn't even pull up on the front page of the front page search; and changing refining the search to blogs will not pull it up at all. Now, I do realize there is a bit of ego in that criticism but, if we consider that Library Journal, American Libraries Direct, Palinet and Open Stax have all recently referred to the site, it seems there may need to be a bit of tweaking to the search engine efficiency.

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