Comments on: Is Technorati Being Reactionary?

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:55:51 +0000

Just another reason why I don’t pay attention to rankings and scores etc.

By: David Airey :: Creative Design ::

David Airey :: Creative Design :: — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:25:16 +0000

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.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:54:06 +0000

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.

By: Karin H.

Karin H. — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:52:59 +0000

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 )

By: Yvonne Russell

Yvonne Russell — Sat, 05 May 2007 21:34:42 +0000

I can see the number of blogs, but not the number of actual links. Is this info still available?

By: Homemom3

Homemom3 — Sat, 05 May 2007 18:03:36 +0000

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.

By: Char

Char — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:06:56 +0000

It is. I just wonder if they are reacting to the Technorati train by de-emphasizing the favorites feature.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:02:19 +0000

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.