{"id":3689,"date":"2005-09-13T17:40:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/google-buys-technorati-not.html"},"modified":"2005-09-13T17:40:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:40:55","slug":"google-buys-technorati-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/google-buys-technorati-not.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Buys Technorati \u2013 Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"2\">Tom, I have to disagree with your point about <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/google-buys-technorati.asp\"><font size=\"2\">Google buying Technorati<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">. Although there are compelling reasons for Google to do this they can do everything Technorati does and more with a few days of programming. After all legend has it that Google News was built in a few days\u2026 Blog search can be built in the same amount of time if not less.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the facts. Google already searches and indexes all the blogs out there anyway. All they need to do is to add a tab next to News on the Google search results bar and voila, the need for Technorati goes away.<\/p>\n<p>Tom, even though your new blog design looks fantastic, I am inclined to think Microsoft, Yahoo! or some other company such a major publisher will pick them up. Google doesn\u2019t need them and if they do choose to purchase the company it will be a purely defensive play.<br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom, I have to disagree with your point about Google buying Technorati. Although there are compelling reasons for Google to do this they can do everything Technorati does and more with a few days of programming. After all legend has it that Google News was built in a few days\u2026 Blog search can be built<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}