Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Week 6 : Exercise 2 : Thing 1 - Technorati and Tags

Below are the stats and thoughts on different searching methods on Technorati...

Blog Directory - 328 Results: generally picked up blogs which talked about learning, and Web 2.0, though not necessarily in the phrase "learning 2.0". Doing a phrase search for "learning 2.0" produced more focused results, with many of them related to libraries in the U.S. This seemed kind-of like doing a subject search in OPAC.

Tags - 86 Results: Used the search for phrase: seemed to get posts by many similar authors. This may be a result of the fact that tags have to be entered for blogs, so less people will do it.

Blog Posts - 420 Results: Used this search through the advanced search selection, and chose the exact phrase search option. This worked in a similar way to the blog directory search, though produced far more results, and more variety (which is not always a good thing!)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I hate it when you get so many results that it's impossible to sort the good from teh bad :)Good work on your blog.