Technorati Acquires BlogCritics
According to a posting this morning by Michael Arrington, Technorati, a search engine service launched in June 2002 by founding CEO Dave Silfry, has acquired BlogCritics, a Web site focusing on news, opinions, and reviews. BlogCritics has published more than 73,000 articles from 2,300 authors.
From TechCrunch:
Today, Technorati is announcing the acquisition of Blogcritics
, a six year old blog network that we first wrote about in 2005. The price, which was all cash, is not being disclosed but our guess is that it is in the $1 million range.
Blogcritics is similar to Salon’s newly launched Open Salon, which lets lots of people write articles from time to time on topics they’re familiar with. The site has had published submissions from 2,300 authors, many of which maintain their own blogs as well. 73,000 articles have been published in the six years since launching. The site draws about 1 million unique monthly visitors who generate 3-4 million page views.
Authors maintain the copyright on their content and grant a perpetual license to Blogcritics.
This could be just the beginning as Technorati believes that they will likely acquire more content sites in the near future.
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