Number 14 of the 23 things challenge is: Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
What is technorati? Technorati is a search engine that monitors web-blogs.Technorati claims to be the largest source of fresh information. Although technorati started out by searching only blogs they have now expanded to searching "citizen media" which includes, photos, videos, and other live communities.Technorati searches blogs by the tags that the blog author has used to tag their blog posts. Remember that tags are keywords that are made up by the blogger.
I started thinking about tags and realized that tags are also what is written in "metadata." Okay, that does make sense. When I took a web page development class last semester I had to include my own metadata. The search engine searches for these tags that users have defined, just as the search engine searches metatags that are placed in the head section of the web page in xhtml. I knew that html class would come in useful! Ha, ha...
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