Good news out of Technorati: former boss David Sifry has announced changes that indicate a partial return to serving their core audience of bloggers. The changes are:
1) Conducting a search no longer takes you to a useless tag page with "multimedia" and only three blog posts. Instead, it takes you straight to the posts page where you can see all the blog posts tagged with that word. Personally, I think it would be better to default to "entire post" - look for all posts containing that word rather than tagged with it - but switching between the two views isn't too painful.
2) Authority filtering is back. You can now filter your results based on authority, which is a good way to remove spam blogs from results, among other things.
3) Charts are back. You can now see the popularity of a word over time.
4) The site has better performance and stability, they claim, thanks to a recent move from 365 Main (which suffered a bad power outage a few months back) to a new colocation center.