I still find Technorati rather unappealing. A lot of it has to do with it's lack of visual aesthetics.
I guess we've all become so used to web visuals that just 'pop,' and if I don't have a fairly quick
visual connection to a site, I tend to move on. I did the search for Library Learning Web 2.0
and it produced a long list of sites. When I typed in the same key word search in tags, it produced no results! That was a surprise. I didn't really enjoy searching via the blog posts or search criteria either. With the blog post category, it just seemed like a random cornucopia of current topics posted recently, most of which were not very interesting to me. The recent popular searches did not move me either.
I think tagging is a good and valuable online tool which can help streamline searches. However,
a disadvantage is that it's personal and individual to the person who tags that item or post, and I suspect that some folks would tag just about every word of an entry just to get their posts read.
