Despite rumors to the contrary, Technorati is not looking to sell, but looking deeper into their sphere. Technorati President, David Sifry, delivers the “State of the Live Web” address post today, expanding the scope of Technorati’s quarterly State of the Blogosphere.
I had just noticed that the quotation in the upper right corner of Technorati’s SERPs had changed from “55 million blogs and some of them have to be g

I have to agree with Mark Evans’ observation on David Sifry’s “State of Technorati” post, it sure feels like he’s plumping his plumage, in hopes of finding a suitor. Hey, I’d boast too, with this kind of growth…
We’ve seen huge growth in the number of unique visitors to our site. In March, we exceeded 9 million unique visitors, which is a 141% increase in monthly visitors in a single quarter. Moreo

I must admit that I’m not an avid viewer of Technorati’s Buzz TV. I’ve seen it a couple of times, and host Aaron Krane is perfect for the role - when you have only two minutes, you need to be that energetic - but I just don’t have the time to tune in each day (I know it’s only 2 minutes long!).
Anyway, maybe it’s part of Aaron’s plan to get me to talk about Buzz TV - in which case it’s worked - but Marketing Pilgrim is featured on today’s episode.
So like the pavlovian blogger I am, he sent me the embedded video and I came running to hit “publish”

We caught a brief glimpse of Technorati’s WTF, yesterday, when Rubel captured a screenshot before the service was pulled. Today, Technorati’s David Sifry makes the official announcement about the launch.
So what exactly is WTF?
When you see a top search with an orange flame next to it, it means at least one person from the community has written their view as to why that topic is hot - right now

Steve Rubel managed to capture a screenshot of a new site called WTF (Where’s the Fire), before it was taken down. It appears to be the work of Technorati, the well known and trusted blog search engine.
Boy, I’m excited to see this move by them. Digg has become a very closed community, and it’s virtually impossible to have your site featured, if the top users decide they just don’t like you

Want to know the best way to push any website to the #1 popularity spot for its industry? It’s quite simple, you leverage the traffic from one of Google’s existing properties.
Need proof?
Google’s Blog Search has taken over the #1 spot from Technorati, thanks to a link placed on the homepage of Google News

Darren Rowse reports Technorati has launched a Link Count Widget which allows bloggers to display the number of inbound links for any given blog post.
Here’s how Technorati describes the widget…
Technorati tracks when other bloggers link to your blog and this widget makes it possible for you to display the number of links on every blog post