Technorati
{{short description|Search engine and a publisher advertising platform}}
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Technorati is a search engine and a publisher advertising platform. Technorati launched its ad network in 2008.
In 2016, Synacor acquired Technorati for $3 million.{{cite web | url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/23/synacor-buys-technorati-to-build-out-its-mobile-and-programmatic-ad-business/ | title=Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business | year=2016 | access-date=2016-06-18}}{{cite web | url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408278/000119312516472657/d44421d8k.htm | title=Form 8-K : Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 23, 2016 (February 19, 2016) : Synacor, Inc. | year=2016 | access-date=2016-06-18}}
The company's core product was previously an Internet search engine for searching blogs. The website stopped indexing blogs and assigning authority scores in May 2014 with the launch of its new website, which is focused on online publishing and advertising.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160310185743/http://technorati.com/welcome-to-the-new-technorati Welcome to the new Technorati] Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry, with its headquarters in San Francisco. Kevin Marks was the site's Principal Engineer.{{cite web | url=http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/03/code-conversations-episode-2-kevin.html | title=Code Conversations Episode 2 - Kevin Marks with Brad Neuberg | date=2009-03-11 | access-date=2016-06-18}} Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist.
The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and Best of Show.{{cite web | url=http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/ | title=Web Awards Winners | year=2006 | work=south by southwest festivals + conferences | access-date=2007-03-11 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211205549/http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/ | archive-date=2007-12-11 }} It was nominated for a 2006 Webby Award for
Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.{{cite web | url=http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=10#best_practices | title=2006 webby nominees: 10th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners | date=2006 | work=Webby Awards | access-date=2007-03-11}}
Reception
In February 2006, Debi Jones pointed out that Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere" postings, which then claimed to track 27.7 million blogs, did not take into account MySpace blogs, of which she said that there were 56 million. As a result, she said that the utility of Technorati as a gauge of blog popularity was questionable.{{cite web | url=http://www.blogher.com/node/2509 | title=The Site that Ate the Blogosphere | author=Debi Jones | date=February 16, 2006 | work=MobileJones.com | access-date=2007-03-02 | archive-date=2018-09-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903114937/http://www.blogher.com/node/2509 | url-status=dead }} However, by March 2006, Aaron Brazell pointed out that Technorati had started tracking MySpace blogs.{{cite web | url=http://technosailor.com/technorati-indexing-myspace-blogs/ | title=Technorati Indexing MySpace Blogs | author=Aaron Brazell | date=March 31, 2006 | work=Technosailor | access-date=2007-03-23 | archive-date=2008-07-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706122959/http://www.technosailor.com/technorati-indexing-myspace-blogs/ | url-status=dead }}
In May 2006, Technorati teamed up with the PR agency Edelman. The deal earned a lot of criticism, both on principle and as a result of Edelman's 2006 fake blog scandals. Edelman and Technorati officially ended the deal in December 2006. That month, Oliver Reichenstein pointed out that the so-called "State of the Blogosphere" was more of a PR-tool and money maker for Edelman and Technorati than a reliable source, explaining in particular: a) why Technorati/Edelman's claim that "31% of the blogs are written in Japanese" was "bogus", and b) where the financial profit for the involved parties was in this.{{cite web | url=http://www.informationarchitects.jp/bogus-technoratiedelman-statistics | title=Technorati: Big business with bogus data | author=Oliver Reichenstein | date=December 13, 2006 | work=Information Architects Japan | access-date=2007-07-22}}
In May 2007, Andrew Orlowski, writing for the tech tabloid The Register, criticized Technorati's May 2007 redesign. He suggested that Technorati had decided to focus more on returning image thumbnails rather than blog results. He also claimed that Technorati never quite worked correctly in the past and that the alleged refocus was "a tacit admission that it's given up on its original mission".{{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/25/technorati_retreats/ | title=Technorati knocks itself out. Again | author=Andrew Orlowski | date=May 25, 2007 | work=theregister.co.uk | access-date=2007-08-05}}
In August 2008, Technorati acquired the online magazine, Blogcritics, for an undisclosed sum of money. As a result, Blogcritic's founders – publisher Eric Olsen and technical director Phillip Winn – became full-time Technorati employees.{{cite web | url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/26/technorati-acquires-blogcritics-gets-into-content-game/ |title= Technorati Acquires BlogCritics, Gets Into Content Game | date= August 26, 2008 |work= TechCrunch | access-date= 2009-07-06}} One of the first collaborative ventures of the two entities was for Blogcritics writers to begin writing descriptions of Technorati tags.{{cite web |url=http://mashable.com/2009/02/03/technorati-tag-pages/ |publisher=Mashable.com |title=New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You? |first=Jennifer |last=Van Grove |date=February 3, 2009 |accessdate=November 14, 2024}}
In October 2008, Technorati acquired the online ad agency Adengage.[http://www.inquisitr.com/5319/technorati-acquires-adengage-expanding-ad-mix/ Inquisitr News Report Retrieved 2008-10-15] Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra wanted to use the AdEngage platform to expand Technorati Media's offering, starting with an expansion of their advertising business from higher traffic sites. The AdEngage
network added a reported 12 billion monthly impression growth to the Technorati Media Network.
In April 2009, Blogcritics underwent a complete site redesign{{cite news| url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042800013.html |work= The Washington Post |title= paidContent.org – Technorati's Blogcritics Gets A Makeover |first=Joseph |last= Tartakoff |date= April 28, 2009 | access-date= April 26, 2010}} and switched content management systems.
In 2009, Technorati decided to stop indexing blogs and sites in languages other than English in order to focus only on the English-language blogosphere. As a result, thousands of sites in various languages were no longer rated by the Technorati service.{{cite web | url=http://lindipendente.splinder.com/post/22086553/Technorati%3A+the+War+of+Languag | title=Technorati: the War of Languages | author=Dario de Judicibus | date=January 21, 2010 | work=L'Indipendente | access-date=2017-11-01 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928221233/http://lindipendente.splinder.com/post/22086553/Technorati%3A+the+War+of+Languag | archive-date=2011-09-28 | url-status=dead }} In 2014, Technorati stopped indexing blogs altogether, refocusing its efforts on its advertising business.
In 2016, Synacor acquired Technorati for $3 million.{{Cite news|url=https://adexchanger.com/platforms/synacor-acquires-technorati-to-expand-its-ad-business/|title=Synacor Acquires Technorati For $3 Million To Expand Its Ad Business {{!}} AdExchanger|date=2016-02-23|work=AdExchanger|access-date=2017-11-29}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305224216/http://technorati.com/ Technorati Home Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305224216/http://technorati.com/company/about-us/ Technorati management team] official page, reference for much of the above
- [http://gigaom.com/2006/12/29/technorati-edelman-deal-is-done Giga OM's entry on the end of the Technorati-Edelman deal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118080014/http://gigaom.com/2006/12/29/technorati-edelman-deal-is-done/ |date=2010-01-18 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081231042502/http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ Technorati's 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report]
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