Monday, September 3, 2007

Technorati Authority

I've been trying to understand more about the authority system at Technorati. http://techorati.com/

With no authority, a blog has a ranking of 7,966,799th most popular blog in the universe. To me this does not suggest there are 7,966,799 blogs being indexed, but rather that there are 7,966,799 -1 = 7,966,798 blogs with an authority of 1. I guess it could go either way, but that is how I am guessing they designed it. This only means there are more than 8 million blogs, I just don't know how many more.

Some sample numbers at the low end include:

AuthorityRank
-7,966,799
13,915,745
12,554,958
41,372,336
7876,360


These numbers are interesting and show how many blogs have the same authority. And yes, there are two different numbers for an authority of one. I'm just recording what I see. I'm not sure of the reason for this yet.

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