Every blogger should know about Technorati. It tracks all the links to your blog in an easy to understand way.

At least, that’s the idea.

Over the last 6 months, Technorati’s accuracy has been going downhill, its ability to get new posts in the index has been going downhill and its ability to keep an index clean has been going downhill. The net result is that when I search for Ensight links, I’m lucky to get 4-5 new ones on a given week, even though every other search engine reports 20-30 new ones just about every week.

So, what’s a body to do?

Why, use an oft-forgotten feature of Bloglines (where I also read blogs, btw) called “Citations”. This feature used to be crap, but at some point in the last year it’s actually become useful.

I just add “ensight.org” to the URL “http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=”, and I get all kinds of great results. Not as many as PubSub offers up, but certainly better than Technorati.

So, goodbye Technorati. You helped the blogosphere grow, but I guess we got too big too fast, and you just haven’t been able to keep up.