I Really Want to Trust Technorati
By leelefever on July 7, 2004 - 3:41pm.
For those of you who may not know, Technorati is a web site that tracks links between web sites (among other things). Webloggers use it to find out who is linking to their blog by putting a URL into the box on this page. The site just passed the 3 million "weblogs watched" number.
Now, I admit that I'm a habitual Technorati user- multiple times a day sometimes. It's a feedback and discovery system for me- and I really dig it. And, I admit to having some selfish pride in the number of sites linking to my weblog.
However, it seems that Technorati is not keeping a good count. Despite new links almost every day, the displayed number of new links and sources hardly ever changes (it hasn't changed in over 2 weeks). And, when I see the linking numbers from the perspective of another web site, it doesn't match either.
Further, I've signed up to get emails for my watchlist, only to get emails that say "No new links today", even when the web site paints a completely different picture. Then, the emails just stopped coming.
I know the site is growing quickly and Mr. Sifry and Co. can only do so much, but I would love more consistency. I'm proud of my links and I want to see the displayed number of weblogs linking to mine be accurate - it means something to me.
The bottom line is that I've come to love the service and I want it to be better by being more accurate.
Are other folks seeing these issues? Could I be doing something wrong?
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I Really Want to Trust Technorati
i've noticed it too. it comes and goes. i've also noticed it changes if I refresh it sometimes or click "rank by freshness" or the page numbers, etc.
not sure why or how it does that, but I've seen it.
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Hi there,
Yes I observed it too. And I too would like it to be more accurate, as I really love Technorati and use it a lot. More precise info would make it a nice tool to do some research into 'conversational networks' or how conversations spread, as well as how f2f meetings influence the linking patterns. Now that is not really possible in an accurate way.
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Hey, thanks SO MUCH for the feedback. You're absolutely right about the glitches in the service. We're working really hard to fix things. Basically the priorities look like this:
1) Keep the site up
2) Make the response time faster
3) Fix the niggly bugs (like the "stuck" link count numbers, and broken email watchlists)
4) New features and functionality (we've got some pretty fun stuff we're working on)
Thanks again for your patience while we're going through these pains. We're totally striving to be the best search, discovery, and information service to authors like yourself.
I'm going to make sure that the entire Technorati team reads your entry this morning.
And please don't hesitate to use the feedback@technorati.com address as well or to email me directly with suggestions or complaints!
Dave
Dave
I Really Want to Trust Technorati
Thanks for the acknowledgment Dave. It's great to see you keeping an eye on feedback.
I Really Want to Trust Technorati
Do you know of other sites out there like Technocrati? Thx!
I Really Want to Trust Technorati
feedster, waypath, bloglines, blogdex, blogsnow.
search for blog search engines and click on ari paparo's list of them.
I Really Want to Trust Technorati
Nice work Pete! I was getting to it, I swear!
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