02-19-2006, 11:54 AM
Quote:If life without Google is hard to imagine for most web users, life without the blog search engine Technorati.com is probably unthinkable for inhabitants of the blogosphere. Where Google lets users find what they are looking for, Technorati enables bloggers to find out something even more precious: who has been linking to their posts.
Traditional search engines send out a software "spider" to index all the pages on a website, whether or not they have changed. This is a huge task, so the time between visits of the spider is usually days - hopeless for the fast-moving world of blogs. A better method would be to index blogs as soon as they are updated, and only then. Sifry realised that a mechanism was already in place that would allow him to do precisely that.
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full article: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/...60,00.html
