Technorati acquiring Personal Bee custom news web service

Technorati acquiring Personal Bee custom news web service

Blog search engine company Technorati has announced that they are acquiring the custom-news website Personal Bee.

With this Technorati aims to expand their presence on the web where they face massive competition from companies like Google which have their own Blog Search Engine service.

Incidentally, Google also has a personalized homepage service which was recently overhauled to sport themes.

Technorati said in a statement that they would acquire Personal Bee’s platform to let users tailor news pages to individual tastes and then get automated feedback.

Technorati founder David Sifry added in his statement: “It is about enabling people to become ‘curators’. Every family has the person that always passes along jokes or is the first to say ‘Did you hear?’ And there is the everyday person that wants to find out the latest gossip. We want to make them stars.”

Technorati defines curators as people that revel in being first to pass along news and those perpetually hungry fresh developments.

Personal Bee founder Ted Shelton had this to say about this acquisition deal: “Technorati has evolved beyond searching the blogosphere to aggregating the vast amount of tagged social media that make up what we call the Live Web. We are adding flexible publishing capabilities so that everyone can find conversations, track up-and-coming ideas and stories, and customize the Live Web in any way they like.”