Dave Sifry has just launched the beta version of the next rev of Technorati, his amazing blog-analysis tool:
1) Much faster indexing – the median amount of time it takes from when someone posts something on their weblog to when it is captured and searchable via our live database is 7 minutes.
2) Much faster querying – our goal is to have every search query take less than a second, even as the database is being continuously updated. We added a query timer at the top of every results page so you can judge for yourself.
3) Much more scalable – We built this distributed database system to scale. As we track more events, we add more machines to scale. As our user traffic increases, we add more machines to scale. This should continue to work for quite some time, so we're eager to test under load.
