Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Week 4 Exercise 9

Technorati what an enormous blogospere! Searching Learning Web 2.0 delivered results that emphasized what a growing environment this is: Posts indicated 8,838 results for learning web 2.0, Blogs indicated 585 Blogs about Learning Web 2.0, however while there were no photos about learning web 2.0 there was a page of links to videos about learning web 2.0. Searching the Blog directory for Web 2.0 indicated 7 plus pages of results but I could only get up to page 5 to display. In the advanced search option I searched for the tag web 2.0 and returned 36,225 posts tagged web 2.0.
Further exploration led me to the Technorati Blog where I was interested to read that
Technorati has experienced a problem with their search result updating infrastructure. They were able to continue to crawl and save data, however, post search results were stale and temporarily stuck at about 3pm Pacific Fri. Aug 15. Link results (reactions) were stuck at Thu. Aug 14. Technorati identified the root cause and I expect the system has caught up now. It was interesting to note that no data was being lost just that the most recent posts and reactions at that time were not reflected in search results.

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