Hold the iPhone… Technorati Relaunches With New Design!

Update: it appears Technorati hasn’t updated pings from any site in at least 24 hours. I assume that means their search and "rising topics" is at least 24 hrs old.

If you are a regular reader of CN, you know that there are few companies I love more than Technorati. Yesterday the service was down for a period of time (apparently the monster escaped) and previously I wondered if Technorati was as good as Alexa. I’ve reached out to the Technorati team a few times but never hear back.

But gosh o golly was I excited to find today a new Technorati site when I loaded it up just a short while ago! There’s more green now as all of the links are green, fonts are a bit smaller and there’s a bunch of Google ads jammed up in there. There’s "all new" Technorati tag pages to help you navigate the Web.

On the positive tip, it looks like the top 100 list has been pushed under the blog navigational tab. Maybe Jalichandra is finally reading CN and realizes there’s more than just 100 blogs online today.

They appear to be pushing their "rising" categories even more on the homepage now — I guess this is because of Google Blogsearch’s changes to their homepage.

I don’t think there was anything wrong with the old site — I would have spent the time on answering customer service emails and making sure the current system works 100% rather than putting some polish on the site. In these tough economic times, it’s the core that will help businesses succeed.