Technorati Adds Updates

Last week (December 19th), San Francisco based blog search engine, Technorati, added a number of new features to its blog search. According to Dave Sifry, these improvements will “make Technorati easier to use and easier to understand.”

Here is a breakdown of items Technorati has implemented:

• Charts: You can now view charts that rate how many mentions per day a topic of interest has received within a 30 day time frame.
• Improved extracts: Technorati claims extracts are now easier to comprehend.
• Scoped search based on related tags: Tabs are now displayed below the search bar after a query is entered. This breaks a subject up into more categories so that users can better define relevancy. For instance, a search on U2 brings up the tabs All Blogs, Music, Bono, Conciertos, Live8 and Vertigo Tour.
• Enhanced profile information: Users’ profiles now contain more information about their blogs, and tag users can view a map of their most popular tags.
• More: There is also a ‘Blog Finder’ that helps users find out who’s blogging about topics of interest, revisions to the Popular widget, and a tag widget: