So the blackout in Los Angeles recently took down my hosting provider, so I was without email for a bit and had no access to post to my blog for a bit too. All's well now it seems.
The big news today is that Google has launched a beta blog search engine. There's already a lot of reviews up on the web that you can find, but with respect to Technorati, I wanted to link to a post by Dave Sifry, Technorati's CEO.

In one word: SPEED!
Pity poor slow-as-a-opium-crap Feedster.
With google blog search the search is instant. Now Technorati is not a horrible slowpoke (anymore) but the google blog search allows up to 100 blogs per page which is HUGE advantage over a mere 20 at Technorati.
In another word: SPEED!