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February 13, 2006

Technorati filtering

Technorati filtering: New user-interface element at blogsearch site technorati.com... a four-position horizontal slider to choose the amount of "authority" (incoming links) a blog must have in order to display in your results. The slider works via JavaScript; the new filtered results via a page-refresh. In quick tests "a little authority" removes the bulk of the warez and linkspam sites, and "some authority" gives a good overview of actual current conversation. I'm not sure of the sustainability, though... if this approach gets popular then that's just incentive for spammers to include a mutual-link module... maybe Technorati requires inbound links from sites on a list of known-to-be-good weblogs deciding it's real, I don't know. But it also cuts out new blogs, too, if that's an issue in your search. Anyway, it's a nice customization, very handy if you try to search blogs, and they've got a feedback loop too. Now, if Technorati could just get rid of its "sponsored links" offering "macromedia software at 70% off!", "studio mx for $65!!", then after that bit of filtering I'd be even happier, I bet.... ;-)

Posted by John Dowdell at February 13, 2006 09:46 PM

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Posted by: John Dowdell at February 14, 2006 02:24 PM