Yahoo working on Technorati killer |
Ian Forrester from Cubicgarden.com notes from Open Tech 2005:
The rumours about Yahoo working on a Technorati killer, are true. The aggregator will support Microformats and RSS Extensions, including some of Yahoo’s rivals. Yahoo will be REALLY opening up more APIs … Yahoo are counting RSS/Atom as a type of API not just as a syndication format.
This explains why at least Yahoo hasn’t bought Technorati. Makes sense that the big three wouldn’t want to buy Technorati, when they have the engineering talent to build something like it themselves, but there is still value in the traffic and links from all around the web. I still think somebody is going to buy them (Ask Jeeves?). I wonder when Microsoft or Google will start offering a blog search? The clock is ticking.
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[…] Continued bad news for Technorati as any sort of buyout/acquisition, because Yahoo is allegedly building a Technorati killer too. Dave Sifry used to comment here but I think he was run off long ago thinking perhaps that I was a naysayer on his company. If that’s the case, he’d be wrong of course, because I actually think Technorati is currently the best of the blog search crop. It’s too bad no bigger fish seem to find enough value in them to buy them out and would rather compete against, but maybe their price is just insane. I don’t pretend to know those details. […]
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