By way of PE Wire, we got wind of this: Technorati has scored $7.6 million in Series C funding, from DFJ and Mobius Venture Capital. It’s a vote of confidence from VCs, no less.
Out of curiosity, we checked in Technorati for the goings-on. Despite the brouhaha over Rocketbottom’s going and coming of hottie hosts, Zidane remains the top search. Hooray, we’re in the company of the great and great-minded.
Small wonder why our humble virtual abode has had over 6 times the usual traffic when we were under the spell of “red mist“. It turns out our falling for the bait of greatness is a blessing in disguise, and a timely one, no less.
Encouraged, we benchmarked ourself against Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs. Not all is well. The top one is a Chinese blog hosted by the top portal in China, Sina: 48,651 links from 29,850 sites. We don’t dispute the popularity of this blog, or any on the top list, despite our simmering professional envy, but we are a bit perplexed by the logic behind it.
China is the most populous country on earth, so if the name of the game is big numbers, inevitably, and indubitably perhaps, Chinese bloggers will win out. Although Technorati never ‘crawled’ a blog it didn’t like, still, it would make sense for Technorati to poll the most popular blogs by language, or country, wouldn’t it? It would, among others, allow the denizens in the blogosphere to get a flavor of different cultures and catch a glimpse of the idiosyncrasies of different peoples.
[…] As preposterous as it sounds, in February, Technorati even introduced an ??uthority??feature, which calculates a blog’s authority by how many people link to it. We have voiced dissent with Technorati’s top blog list. Sphere, on the other hand, has ??eatured??blogs, which derives the highest quality blogs for about 13,000 keywords based on the algorithms. […]
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