Technorati Gets "Major Update"

Technorati founder and CEO Dave Sifry made a big entry on the site's Weblog today to celebrate its third birthday and announce a number of updates. A lot of the changes appear to reflect users' suggestions, and he noted, "This is just a start - there's more to come." The site improvements cover a wide range of areas. "Technorati's rolled out a major update to our site and to our back-end systems," Sifry wrote. "We've made some major speed and accuracy improvements in core search," he noted, saying, "Link counting is a lot more accurate and timely." The Technorati CEO listed some new features, including "Discover, which is topic-based, Favorites, which gives YOU the power to pick your favorite blogs, and Popular, which algorithmically derives the most linked-to items in the last few days." "Better Murdok. Visit