Case 7: Popular romantic bloggers
Technorati is a good source of information about blog popularity. For any topic it can be used to identify a set of popular relevant bloggers. For this case study the objective was to identify the popular bloggers that frequently discussed romance. A search for “romance” was used in the online Technorati search engine to identify a set of romance-related blogs. Copying the URLs of the top 10 matches of this search to a file gave an input for the Technorati section of Webometric Analyst, which reports information about blogs. Selected information about the top 10 blogs is reported in Table 7. This is a very small example but one practical use of this capability is to identify the most authoritative blogs relevant to any topic by generating a list and selecting blogs with the most inlinks.