{"id":82,"date":"2007-04-08T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog2\/2007\/04\/08\/technorati-breaking-away-leaving-google-behind-in-the-dust\/"},"modified":"2007-04-08T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T16:49:00","slug":"technorati-breaking-away-leaving-google-behind-in-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/technorati-breaking-away-leaving-google-behind-in-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorati breaking away, leaving Google behind in the dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">First published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2007\/04\/05\/google-technorati-blog-search-battle\/\">Compete Blog<\/a> on 5-April-2007<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/gbs_vs_technorati.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Yes, Technorati is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2007\/01\/07\/technorati-google-blog-search-compete\/\">still <\/a>very much the most visited blog search engine.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week Technorati <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/alerts\/archives\/000492.html\">self reported <\/a>Q1 numbers \u2013 they grew page views by 150% and unique visitors 141%.   The bigger question however &#8212; how does this growth compare to the #2 player in this space &#8211; Google Blog Search?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Technorati_UVs_Mar2007.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As you can see, according to Compete data, Technorati grew monthly unique visitors 91% and pageviews 138% in Q1.  During the same time period, Google grew unique visitors by only 39% and pageviews by 47%.   In both absolute and relative terms, Technorati is dominating Google.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Tehnrati_PVS_March2007_2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In terms of where we our Attention is going, it\u2019s the same story, Technorati is growing at a significantly faster rate compared to Google.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Technorati_Attention_Mar200.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bottom-line:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lets be honest, Technorati is a valuable property.  Technorati was one of the original blog fire starters and has successfully established itself as the largest and most authoritative public blog search service.  It\u2019s not so much a question of whether Technorati can compete against Google, but whether Google can compete against Technorati.  For instance, we have seen a number of recent enhancements at Technorati, including a noticeable improvement in reliability, but we can\u2019t remember the last new Google feature.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Google should <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2006\/10\/05\/youtube-googlevideo-site-lonelygirl15-traffic-growth-2006\/\">pull another YouTube<\/a>, and buy Technorati before someone else does.  Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published on the Compete Blog on 5-April-2007 Yes, Technorati is still very much the most visited blog search engine. Earlier this week Technorati self reported Q1 numbers \u2013 they grew page views by 150% and unique visitors 141%. The bigger question however &#8212; how does this growth compare to the #2 player in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}