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Technorati

A search engine and publisher advertising platform focused on indexing blogs and assigning authority scores.

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Fatal mistake: Technorati tracked the blogosphere with real-time blog indexing and authority rankings. $10M raised. Indexed 133M blogs at peak. Google Blog Search (free) replicated blog search. Twitter replaced blogs as real-time commentary. Social media analytics (Radian6, Brandwatch) replaced blog monitoring. Pivoted to content marketing ad network 2012. Sold to Synacor 2014 for reportedly $2M.

Founded	2002
Closed	2014
Country	USA
Sector	Media

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2002

FOUNDING

2006

CRISIS

2008-08

ACQUISITION ATTEMPT

Acquisition event (Crunchbase)

2010-11

ACQUISITION ATTEMPT

Acquisition event (Crunchbase)

2014

SHUTDOWN

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Technorati's core blog search product became obsolete as the blogging ecosystem changed and competition intensified. The company pivoted to online publishing and advertising but was unable to establish sufficie...

nt market traction, leading to its acquisition by Synacor for $3 million in 2016.

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Technorati raised €10M before technorati tracked the blogosphere with real-time blog indexing and authority rankings. $10m raised. indexed 133m blogs at peak. google blog search (free) replicated blog search. twitter replaced blogs as real-time commentary. social media analytics (radian6, brandwatch) replaced blog monitoring. pivoted to content marketing ad network 2012. sold to synacor 2014 for reportedly $2m. ended it. See the documented cause, verified lesson and all failure signals.

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