You know you can use Technorati to find blog posts about anything and everything. But what if you don't want blog posts - what if you want to find entire blogs about a certain subject? That's where the new Technorati Blog Finder comes in.
Blog Finder takes the power of the folksonomy - bottom-up, user-generated tags - and applies it to the Blogosphere. Looking for a blog about nanotechnology, sports, or politics? Look no further. Type in any text, or click on a featured tag, and find blogs on any subject. You can even use "OR" to put multiple tags together, like: Find a blog about Motherhood OR Fatherhood OR Parenting.
By default, the blogs are presented in order of authority, which means highly-linked blogs appear first. So each of these Blog Finder pages is like a mini Top 100 for any topic you can imagine. You can also sort each tag by how recently the blogs have updated, or alphabetical by title.
And for all you bloggers out there, this is a great opportunity for your blog to get found. If you're already a Technorati member with a claimed blog, all you have to do is visit your Configure Blog page to choose which tags you want to use. You can add up to 20 tags per blog.
If you're not a member and don't want to become one, we won't hold it against you. All you have to do is put a little snippet of code on your site and ping us and we'll add your blog to Blog Finder. For the skinny, visit the Blog Finder help page. If you're a developer, that's the place to go as well.
Blog Finder is Beta, and you know what that means. There are some miscategorized blogs in there, and we're probably missing a lot of stuff. This is where you come in. If you see something funky, tell us! We want to keep improving this new service.
And as always, thanks for using Technorati.
