Delicious v Technorati

Thought about this overnight and did a little test this morning by searching for “Monarch Butterfly” on both Delicious and Technorati. It was interesting to see that Delicious returned 652 results, all directly related to monarch butterflies and insects, whereas many of the 310 results found on Technorati seemed to have nothing to do with monarch butterflies. Delicious is a more direct way of finding specific information linked by tags. Technorati has lots of interesting stuff but I didn’t find it an easy site to navigate around and I wasn’t sure of the ‘worth’ of what I found. It uses a ‘crawling’ system to search blogs and posts and, because of this, returns sometimes meaningless results.