Technorati: A New Public Utility

Wired News:
"At its essence, Technorati may be a search engine, but its approach is vastly different.
Technorati sees the internet as a stream of conversations. This makes it much more immediate. It takes about seven minutes to for Technorati to index a post.
In China, bloggers are using Technorati tags to get around government censors. The Adopt-a-Chinese Blog program works by volunteers announcing their intention to host a blog on their server by employing a special Technorati tag. That way, bloggers in China can locate the blogs through a special page. Since the pages are served outside of China, the government can't censor them."