May
05
Is Technorati Being Reactionary?
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I stopped in at Technorati this morning and noticed a little change. My blogs are now listed with “authority” numbers instead of favorites. What do you think the chances are that it is a reaction from Technorati to the “favorites train“?
You can still add blogs as your favorites, it is just not as prominent. I checked their blog and didn’t see anything on the change, yet.
What do you think – is this a change they had already had in the works or is this a case of reactionism?
Tags: Technorati, Favorites, blogging, Technorati Train
8 Comments
May 5th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Isn’t the authority score just the number of blogs that link to you? I can’t look into it now as I’m on my mobile! I’d like to hear what is going on from Technorati though.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
It is. I just wonder if they are reacting to the Technorati train by de-emphasizing the favorites feature.
May 5th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I think they are, too many were doing I think and they stopped it. Did it hurt those that were ranked the top 100 favorites? I didn’t check since last night.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I can see the number of blogs, but not the number of actual links. Is this info still available?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Hi all
Noticed it too (yesterday). I think the authority counts for blogs linking to your blog. The number of links you still can see:
164 links to this URL sorted by [freshness]
when you click on ‘authority’
And ‘favoured by’ is now named: fans (what’s in a name
)
May 6th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
The top 100 favourite blogs remains and now there is a “fans” section on the left hand side of the page for your blog which shows avatars for the people who have favourited your blog. If anything this is making favourites more prominent, certainly more interesting and useful compared to one line that reads “Favourited by x people” or whatever it was.
The use of the word authority is really just aesthetics and certainly stands for number of unique blogs linking in the last 6 months.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Hi Char,
Personally I don’t see much of a difference in what they’ve done. To be honest I’ve not looked into it much, but I think they’ve made a change that doesn’t matter to me an awful lot.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Just another reason why I don’t pay attention to rankings and scores etc.