I just finished blogging on Get Real about the new Technorati beta. The news was launched by Joi Ito and Sifry. Hot news. The new beta is a very nice little redesign. I love it.

Here’s the new stuff:

- New help pages aimed at new bloggers (Blogging 101, Tags)

- A “popular” tab for news, books, movies, top 100 blogs.

- More tagging! If your search matches a tag, it will give you the related tags, results from the tag, results from plain old search, and flickr results.

- More search features (like the standard advanced search options)

- More personalization right on the homepage

- Expanded capabilities of the Watchlist – you can see them on a page now, in addition to RSS.

- Watchlist a tag!

It’s still a beta. Still improvements to come. But I think it is a very large leap in the right direction of an already powerful search.

Technorati Tags: technorati, beta, blogosphere, search