There sure are a good deal of blogs out there. I searched for "Learning 2.0" in blogs and got 2,230 different hits for blogs that made posts mentioning that phrase. When searching under tags there were 274 different posts with that tag. Some of those posts looked similar to the learning 2.0 project that we're doing. Using the blog directory, there were 391 blogs on learning 2.0. So yes, the results are different, and if I were looking for blogs on "learning 2.0" it looked like the tag search gave me better results.
The Popular section in Technorati is interesting if you want to gauge what's popular with a certain segment of mainstream culture. For instance, there are popular music artists and celebrities making up some of the top searches category.
The favorite blogs category seem to center around technology, like the Boing Boing blog or the Techcrunch blog.
Overall, technorati is useful as a search engine. You just need to be specific about your searches to avoid getting too many results, since there are so many blogs out there now.
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