Just a quick note here… A number of people have been calling me out saying that Technorati has improved massively in the last few days.

Which it has. Kudos to Technorati.

I’m Canadian, which means I don’t hold a grudge very well. But, I’m also a realist, which means that 3 days of solid results doesn’t replace 2 years of dodgy ones (or, if you’re more optimistic, 3-6 months).

I honestly believe Dave and the team at Technorati have pulled a rabbit out of their collective asses this week, and really forestalled a complete meltdown. But that doesn’t mean I’m grinning ear to ear either.

I’ve got podcast interviews lined up next week with folk from Technorati, IceRocket and Bloglines to try and put all of this in context and determine exactly where the market’s at right now. It might to all work out (not all interviews come out useable, after all)… And it might be too late… But, at this point that’s the plan.

So, yes, Technorati has improved. No, I don’t feel Technorati is dead (I never really said that, did I?). But, I still find myself using the following blog search engines in the following order, instead of ONLY using Technorati:

IceRocket
Bloglines
Technorati

Needless to say, until either IceRocket fails me, or until Technorati manages to win back my trust, this is the way things will stay. And, I’m sensing, I’m not the only one. Sometimes near meltdowns are almost worse than full-on meltdowns, because people have a chance to see the alternatives.

This is what happened when MoveableType 3.0 was released. It didn’t kill the company, but it DID massively increase WordPress’s visibility, bring some very prominent folk over to WordPress, and effectively put the two packages on par in terms of visibility.

What will happen to Technorati remains to be seen.

Note to self: learn how to do “quick posts”…