Technorati's release of its Web traffic, which related blog VC Ratings analyzed, already has prompted rumors of Google Inc.'s interest in the blog search engine. Technorati is a natural fit for Google, which not only offers its own blog search tool, but manages popular blog publishing site Blogger. However, technology aside, Technorati's reported 9 million unique visitors in February would help Google, which reported 114 million unique visitors in February, inch closer to beating the Web's most popular destination: Yahoo! Inc., which reported 129 million unique visitors. Nonetheless, if Technorati's investors, August Capital, Mobius Venture Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, are shopping the company, odds are good Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo will kick the tires, meaning Google may not trap Technorati. —Matthew Wurtzel

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