The New Technorati: Ugly and Uglier
In a desperate move to copy Digg’s successful v3 redesign, Technorati added some new features of its own. According to a news release on their blog, the new features are:
We’ve added in lots of features to help you make sense of the blogosphere, including Discover, which is topic-based, Favorites, which gives YOU the power to pick your favorite blogs, and Popular, which algorithmically derives the most linked-to items in the last few days.
They also claim to have improved link-counting, back end search systems, ease of use, and other basic core improvements. However, let’s take a look at their Discover feature v.s. Digg v3:
The homepage is a mess of random boxes incoherently placed at random. If there’s some feature or way Technorati can organize data, or pull stats, it’s in one of these boxes. They have a box for Discover, a tag box, a favorite blogs box, ad boxes, your blogs boxes, featured bloggers boxes, and what everyone is blogging about boxes:
There’s some good news for the redesign, though. Search results look very clean! For a company specializing in search, that’s a good thing…
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Yeah, I don’t like it eighter.. everything looks so “chaotic” that it makes my head hurt
Cheers
Kiltak