Technorati began a recent major upgrade of its system. The site has just introduced an enhanced Technorati Beta version, complete with some improved new features.
By far the most noticeable improvement is in the indexing time. The time now from posting on a blog, to Technorati indexing that change, is seven minutes. In the past, the changes could often take days to be recorded.
A query of a blog's incoming links, and of the top linked blogs, is now much faster as well. The results are also listed over several pages, for ease of viewing. This is especially important for blogs that have received a lot links.
Technorati has installed a much improved spider (the computer robot that travels the internet crawling your blogs), enabling better and more complete indexing of the blogosphere.
Because the system remains in a beta version, there are still likely to be some bugs in the program. That is to be expected.
I think the potential of bugs, is more than offset, by the more comprehensive listing of incoming and outgoing blog links.
Thanks to The Blog Herald for the story.
