Thing 14

a few definitions helpful to me since I had only heard and had a very, very vague idea about what Technorati was, or what web crawlers did:Technorati is "the leading search tool and authority for blogs."Note: If you're on Blogger, your blog is probably being captured by Technorati;web crawler (also known as a Web spider)and from Wikipedia "Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches"

opted not to "claim" blog

looked over popular features top blogs, searches, videos, movies, news

Top Favorited Blogs seemed heavily geared towards technology,tech gadgets (no surprise here)and making money; Top Searches were less dominated by tech with music and Paris Hilton appearing along with, predictably, the iPhone; Top Blogs once again dominated by tech & stuff, but Dilbert did appear was down in the Top 100

For Learning 2.0: Blog posts 23,979; 542 Blogs about Learning 2.0;blog directory gave"everything in known universe about web.2.0" yielded posts, blogs, videos and photos plus related tags - viewing all yielded 244,703 blog posts about web 2.0


Top searches you go into individual sites like Google or YouTube tube or if you just do a Search you get 25,217 blog posts about learning 2.0 beg with wiki mind map
located 3 blog posts about author Candace Robb; 1 on Sharan Newman

read blogs on cadfael's window

searched "knitting backwards" found detailed tutorial on Missoula's Stitch N bitch
found several instructional videos as well

After coworker & I learned about Technorati, I later received info from her about an apartment complex and the info came from Technorati

Search seemed pretty strong in Technorati & advanced even better. I'll remember Technorati when I can't find something on the conventional search engines.