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Technorati has been redesigned with color scheme of green and yellow in less than a year. Not only it has been redesigned, new functionalities have also been added and some old ones have been eliminated. In their own words:

First, we’ve eliminated search silos on Technorati. In the past, you had to know the difference between keyword search, tag search and blog directory search in order to make use of the full power of our site. No more. Starting today, we now provide you a simplified experience.

With this launch, we also provide you with more context around more stuff like videos, music, and blogs. Over time, these pages will become richer and more comprehensive as we add more information about the thing itself, like where it was published, who links to it, what other things are similarly tagged, and more.

A screenshot of their old design can be found here.

Technorati Tags: blogosphere, blogsearch, blogging, design, redesign, web design, launch, search, searchengine, technorati

The web is so large
Almost boundless in its scope
Emphasis: “Almost”

- A No-Results-Found message by alpha (beta) search

Yahoo!7 (An Australian and New Zealand Yahoo!) has released a web 2.0 aggregated search engine called alpha. I know what you are thinking, because I was thinking the same thing too; Yahoo! has already got a search engine which is one of the most commonly used in the world, so why alpha (beta) gamma search?

The difference here is that alpha (beta) search is an aggregated search in web 2.0 style, and it categories results from various sources into different sections; the default ones being Yahoo!7 Web Search, Flickr, Yahoo!7 Answers, YouTube, Yahoo!7 News, and Wikipedia. If you are logged in to your Yahoo! account, you can customise the search result page by dragging and dropping modules (source elements) and also add your custom info sources (i.e: any website you would like to search) if they use OpenSearch RSS.

I haven’t heard of OpenSearch RSS before, so I did some research on the Internet, and discovered that the following websites offer OpenSearch RSS.

• All Posters.com
• Amazon.com
• About.com
• ITPapers.com

You can learn how to add OpenSearch RSS to your website or blog from alpha (beta) FAQ if you are interested.

Technorati Tags: alpha, search, search engine, yahoo, web 2.0, new, alphalaunch, alphabeta

The following keywords are top searches on Technorati right now.

1. kathy sierra
2. gmail
3. sanjaya
4. american idol
5. myspace
6. learning 2.0
7. twitter
8. dell
9. youtube
10. kcls27things

8 out of 10 are related to latest and/or popular technologies, 4 out of 10 are names of websites, 2 out of 10 are about a TV show (entertainment) and 1 out of 10 is about an “A-list” blogger.

It shows that most people who use Technorati are Internet-literate and they keep themselves up-to-date with latest happenings on the Internet. They know almost every web 2.0 website in town and they are social networkers (a social networker is someone who participates in social networking activities). Their favourite past time is watching TV while nibbling on chips. :)

Ever wondered what people are searching for on the Internet, particularly in google? Google Zeitgeist has the answer for you. Google Zeitgeist is a report of search statistics which are generated based on millions of searches performed on Google over a given period of time - weekly, monthly, and annually.

According to Google Zeitgeist, top 10 searches conducted in Google.com in 2006 are:
1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki

Search statistics are important because they hold so much more information than just a list of keywords and phrases. They tell you trends, patterns, people’s interest, current events, latest happenings and many more . If used wisely and appropriately, search statistics can provide invaluable information to your business at a very low to zero cost.

Technorati Tags: search, searches, google, keywords, popular keywords, search engine, Google Zeitgeist, statistics

Mike Wadhera wrote a post on Wikipedia founder wanting to build a better Google.

Seems like there will be another ChaCha-alike search engine in the near future.

Technorati Tags: search engine, google, cha cha, search, web 2.0, wikipedia