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Steve Rubel points to the new Technorati authority slider, although he would like to call it Popularity Slider, and so would I.

I won’t add to this discussion, as my relevancing and ranking comments have been made in an earlier discussion initiated by Mary Shelley.

All I’ll say is that Authority doesn’t equal Popularity.

The thing I like about the slider is that now you can view results by less popular or linked to blogs/posts, whereas before it defaulted to maximum popularity…this is good for the long tail.
Now when you are searching in Technorati, you can see what the popular people are saying about a search term, as well as the lesser known people…good going Technorati.

If you haven’t checked out Technorati Explore, it shows the latest posts from Blog Finder topics

…you can also search within these expert topics via Technorati search.

So the next step is to view Technorati Explore and Technorati Tags, by not only date, but also by popularity…slide away!

So far

TECHNORATI SEARCH
Search blogosphere by date, or popularity
RSS feed
Chart
Mini

Search within a URL.
Link searches (by date, or popularity)

Search in blogs by topic experts (sub-set of the blogosphere), via date, or popularity
(lacks RSS feed)
(lacks chart)
(lacks mini)

TECHNORATI TAGS
Browse blogosphere by tags, via date only
(lacks popularity)
(lacks searching within a tag/s)
RSS feed
Charts
Mini

TECHNORATI BLOGFINDER
Browse blogs by claimed topic experts, via date, or popularity
(lacks RSS feed)
(Doesn’t really require a chart, or mini)

TECHNORATI EXPLORE
Browse blogosphere by claimed experts , via date
(lacks popularity)
(lacks chart)
(lacks mini)
RSS feed

TECHNORATI POPULAR BLOGS
(Doesn’t require a date view)
(lacks RSS feed)
(Doesn’t really require a chart, or mini)

TECHNORATI PROFILE
Search within a blog
User tags

There are no OPML URL’s anywhere!