Technorati Gets a New Look

It was in beta for a little while, but it looks as if Technorati's new look has gone live at http://www.technorati.com .

Aside from the page redesign, there's also most popular searches on the front page, as well as a tab of "most popular" items, including books, movies, news, and a list of the top 100 blogs.

There's changes to the functionality of the search, too. For example, do a search for eagle. You'll see that your search results include side results from Flickr, Furl, and Del.Icio.Us. If your search is an applicable tag at other Web sites, it'll end up in your search results. The search results are listed a little differently, with the very recent results more clearly delineated from the older results.

The search page now allows you to search keywords, tags, or URLs for which you want to find links. There doesn't seem to be room for much single-line power searching here, but things like tag and URL searches don't get super-complex anyway.

I like the new layout of the result pages, and I like how the tags now bring together a variety of resources from a variety of pages. (I think I would shelve the "Related tags" feature until I was really comfortable with it, or had some asbestos jammies for handling the flame mail; one search brought some eyebrow-raising related tags.)

Unfortunately one thing that has not changed from the old design is the reaction speed of the site; it's unfortunately still fairly slow. It doesn't feel quite as slow as before, and so far has not given me a blank results screen as the old one sometimes did, but it's still slow enough to notice, and slow enough to be uncomfortable.

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