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By: TechCrunch

TechCrunch — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:19:32 +0000

Web 2.0 This Week (July 10 – 16)

The main Web 2.0 news this week focused on Technorati (is it dyin or is it rockin?) and the release of Atom 1.0. Lots of other random and interesting stuff as well, including important chia-pet news.
Weekly Summary:

1. Technorati is Dead! Long Liv…

By: chris.were dot com

chris.were dot com — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:29:33 +0000

Scalability of technorati
If you aren’t the best on the market, people will know about it within hours. That’s my cautionary tale to product developers everywhere. There’s no way you can whitewash the PR (or control it) anymore.

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By: The Association Blog

The Association Blog — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:49:50 +0000

How Many Blogs? Fewer Than You Think.
Wondering how many blogs there are is a lot like wondering how many websites there are (a lot, but it doesn’t really matter, and most of ‘em are junk). But Steve Rubel points to a post from David Sifry indicating that Technorati is calcula…

By: Penmachine words music comment

Penmachine words music comment — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:08:51 +0000

Shaking out the web–again
Google came along in 1998 with a different approach to the problem and ate them all for breakfast. Now there is a similar search war going on, but this time it’s for blogs and news feeds, and the fallout is beginning too.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:19:41 +0000

I have to report that all my posts have been indexed by Technorati and, although they clearly have a lot of problems, given the size of the task, I would give them 7 out of 10. Let’s not crucify them before we see the results from what Dave Sifry has promised. I don’t know about you, but I’ve not paid Technorati a penny. Those who have, well, give us a cost-benefit analysis dollar by dollar.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:23:55 +0000

I’ve noticed Technorati’s downfall as of late, too. For a while I was trying to tag my posts correctly, so as to get the most exposure. Now I don’t even care. Why? One, because Technorati, for whatever reason, has stopped indexing my posts at all. Two – even if they DO get indexed, who cares? Their site is nearly unusable.

By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:37:54 +0000

Well said, and might I add that when I had a recent problem getting my posts listed at Technorati they took over two weeks to respond to my e-mail, and even then couldn’t be bothered with the basics of netiquette, like say, I don’t know, saying “Hello” or “sorry it took us so long to get back to you,” or even “Goodbye.”

Pathetic.

I had to finally get a really nice guy over at FeedBurner to help me get it straightened out, because the support team at Technorati wasn’t answering ANY of my e-mail.

Not to mention the amount of tag-spam now filling up Technorati’s index. On some terms the tags are nearly un-usable.

RIP Technorati.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:07:22 +0000

We’re not talking hours anymore, sometimes getting your tags in takes days:-(

By: Jonic

Jonic — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:14:31 +0000

Damn straight!

Technorati is terrible at sorting things into any sort of meaningful order, that’s if your posts ever get indexed. I tagged the recent “Adoptablog” program, and while others were listed, mine wasn’t.

I for one find Technorati to be indefensible in its methods, although it was a good idea at the time. With a little more planning and organisation before it started indexing blogs it could be a great system with a genuine application in the blogosphere.

As such it appears to be wasted server space.

By: Andrew Lark

Andrew Lark — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:07:46 +0000

Jeremy Jumps On Technorati (Again)
Good on Jeremy. Frankly, Technorati is a joke in terms of indexing speed and accuracy. I can tag posts and not see them, well, ever. The fact you get listed at all is a miracle. He is right. As a