The Luxembourg-based Wikio has secured funding for €4 million ($5.3 million).
Wikio is like Digg + Google News + Technorati, still in its early phases but promises to lead the way in European Web 2.0 search technologies.

Wikio, launched in France last June, and currently operating sites in France, United States, Germany, Italy and Spain, is [...]

Technorati is a great blogsearch.   There, I said it.  I like Technorati.  However, Technorati has hit some bad spots of late.  They’ve lost employees, been overrun by splogs, and have had some recent acquisition deals go bad.
But, they just got substantial funding, so all is good for Technorati for the time being, I suppose.
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