Leaving Technorati Behind
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.
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8 opinions for Leaving Technorati Behind
Andrew Lark
Jul 11, 2005 at 6:55 pm
What’s Up With Technorati?
Jeremy ponders what the heck is up. I’ve been wondering the same. Not only is it bloody slow but also ever increasingly inaccurate with a long time lag. Sigh… Thoughts anyone?
Ensight - Jeremy Wright » Technorati: Too Quick, Too Fast
Jul 11, 2005 at 8:08 pm
[…] Quick, Too Fast
Funny that I missed this in my last post. Not only is Technorati lagging behind in blog tracking, whic […]
Mack D. Male
Jul 11, 2005 at 9:27 pm
BlogPulse is also great for that!
Jon
Jul 11, 2005 at 10:27 pm
Funny…I blogged this same thing several months ago. Technorati sucks butt.
Personally, I use good old Google. Doing a simple link:url will show you everyone who’s linking to you.
I don’t know why companies like Technorati get any press at all for what they do. Google enabled it years ago.
Dave Currie's Weblog
Jul 12, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Blog searching
This post on Ensight turned me on to the idea of using Bloglines’ “citations” feature for searching blog references instead of going to Technorati. I’ve been trying this for the past few days, and also using the search feature that Bloglines provid…
LexBlog Blog
Jul 13, 2005 at 4:11 pm
Technorati may be lacking as aggregator tool for lawyers
Lawyers and law firms receiving feeds of posts mentioning keywords and key phrases from aggregators such as Technorati, PubSub, Newsgator and Bloglines are light years ahead of those who have chosen to ignore the Internet discussion. The question is wi…
David Sifry
Jul 14, 2005 at 4:06 am
Jeremy,
Thanks for the great feedback. We just rolled out a big bunch of bug fixes and performance enhancements this evening to help to address some of your issues and concerns.
We really listened hard to the comments and feedback that folks like yourself had, and we’re redoubling efforts to make our performance and data quality even better. It is our #1 priority for the next 6 weeks.
Here’s the cosmos for your blog, it came back to me in about 2 seconds:
http://www.technorati.com/search/http%3A//www.ensight.org/
These fixes and enhancements are only the beginning, and there are still bugs and inconsistent performance. We’re working on it. Our only goal is to be of service to you. I hope you continue to give us a try, but I understand if you’ve had it and you’re fed up. Again, thanks for the feedback.
Dave
Why Blog?
Jul 14, 2005 at 5:46 pm
Technorati Getting Some Pushback
Technorati has been catching some flak lately due to its apparent lagtime in indexing new blog posts which result in inaccuracies in stats relative to a given blog. OK, that may or may not be of grave importance to you depending on whether you’re a bl…