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[...] This is far from the worst problem Technorati is having, and doesn’t even begin to touch on the issues raised by people like Chris Brogan about the validity of Technorati’s methodology. Taken all together, these problems present a [...]

By: Research Healthcare

Research Healthcare — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:09:01 +0000

Technorati seemed like it was helpful for a new blog, at least getting you started. Lots of so called “blog search engines” are not as good for the health of your blog but are mainly out for their own advertising revenues and performing a wallet transplant.

By: julien

julien — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:40:54 +0000

fyi, i think Alexa buys data from ISPs now the same way Compete does.

By: Darrin Dickey

Darrin Dickey — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:25:32 +0000

It seems more and more that Technorati is losing its relevance. It appears as if they’re trying to get ahead of the technology curve, but they just keep falling further behind.

If they do become irrelevant, who will capture the flag from them?

Darrin

By: Keren Dagan

Keren Dagan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:23:51 +0000

@Pistachio – Laura, To the best of my knowledge Technorati counts blog post that refer to your twitter page. It does not count tweets that refer to your own blog.
Yet, this is interesting. I did not know that you can claim your Twitter home page in Technorati! I learn new thing every day:)
Keren

By: Laura "Pistachio" Fitton

Laura "Pistachio" Fitton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:14:15 +0000

I’m not so sure about Technorati not counting Twitter. My Twitter page frequently has a higher Technorati rank than my blog. Maybe I’m missing something here…

By: Keren Dagan

Keren Dagan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:20:28 +0000

Hi Chris,

Apparently there are many ways to react to a blog post. I wrote about more than few of them in here: What is a blog reaction these days?http://usingit.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/what-is-a-blog-reaction-these-days/
After using Google Alerts for my blog’s name and link, for some time now, I can see how much is going under Technorati’s radar today.
I still think that, relatively, they do point out the best bloggers out there. I also believe and hope that their crawler will get to this someday.
An interesting question is how to measure the success for a sole micro-blogger (life streamer) that has no blog? Can I “claim” my Twitter account as a “blog” to track reaction so a service can rank it?

Keren

By: Dave Fleet

Dave Fleet — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:31:46 +0000

Joe Thornley wrote a good post on Technorati’s problems: http://propr.ca/2008/technorati-and-me

He sums it up well: “…I am throwing in the towel on Technorati. I no longer receive benefits that justify the time to go to the site and conduct a search. Google blog search reliably provides me with more complete results. So, why spend the time setting up and reviewing search results from a second service that has proven itself so unreliable?

And as I have come to doubt the completeness of Technorati’s search results, I’ve grown ever more reluctant to place any reliance on Technorati Authority.”

By: Technorati - still the best?

Technorati - still the best? — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:13:17 +0000

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By: Simon Koldyk

Simon Koldyk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:09:12 +0000

Alexa doesn’t use the toolbar traffic anymore to get its ranking. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/alexa-overhauls-ranking-system/