Technorati

For those of you who are new to the Blogosphere, I will introduce you to the blogging search engine, Technorati. Technorati is a high speed search engine that constantly polls blogs to search them in almost real time. This allows you to do searches on web logs that you cannot do using traditional spider driven tools such as Google.

Technorati also allows you to maintain a blogging personality across multiple blogs and allows you to claim ownership of blogs which gives you the ability to watch their rankings to see how popular they are based on other blogs linking to them.