Episode 394: TMBA394: What Happened to Technorati?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/richardjalichandra/ One of the things that Dan and Ian are most passionate about is finding great blogs and podcasts.
These days, the internet seems to be getting smaller and smaller. You really need to dig deep to find unique content, and a lot of it is being made in the most remote corners of the internet.
Once upon a time, though, there was a search engine that highlighted blogs themselves.
Richard Jalichandra is the former CEO of Technorati.com, which at one time was considered by many to be the gateway into the blogosphere. During their quest for great blogs, Dan and Ian became curious as to why this company disappeared.
On this week's episode, Richard shares the story of Technorati, as well as the details of his long and storied career in the early days of the world wide web.
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| 0:00.0 | I'll choose my words carefully, and I went in there in 2007, and there was a really small search engine in Mountain View, California, that didn't like other search engines. |
| 0:12.2 | Let's just say they made it incredibly hard for us to exist as a search engine. |
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| 0:30.8 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
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| 0:48.7 | You know, one of the things I'm most passionate about is finding great blogs and podcasts to follow. And for some reason, it's, |
| 0:57.2 | it's really hard. It is hard. I've said it before and I'll say it again on this show, Dan. |
| 1:01.9 | The internet is getting smaller. What do you mean the internet's getting smaller? When I say that, |
| 1:06.5 | I mean, when I go to Google and I type in my search term, I get all the hits. |
| 1:12.8 | Everything that you would imagine that would come up, right? |
| 1:15.7 | So I want to search news. |
| 1:17.0 | I get the New York Times. |
| 1:18.0 | I get the Washington Post. |
| 1:19.0 | I get CNN. |
| 1:20.1 | It is very hard for me to find someone that is reporting outside of this sphere of what |
| 1:25.9 | we would traditionally call news these days. |
| 1:28.0 | And a lot of times, these are the most interesting people and the most informed people on |
| 1:31.7 | the topics that I want to hear about. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.9 | And once upon a time there was a company that highlighted blogs themselves. |
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