Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo, PubSub and IceRocket. As of June 2006, Technorati indexes over 44.1 million weblogs.

Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik is the site's Chief Technologist.

Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active developer's community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer's wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, as well as various open APIs.

The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It has also been nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices.

Technorati is blocked by China. ^*

External links

• Technorati
• Technorati's own blog
• Technorati management team official page, reference for much of the above

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