Lots of discussion going on right now about Technorati. This piece by Doc Searls does a very good job of bringing you up to speed on what has been said in the last few days. What kind of blogger would I be if I didn’t add my two cents?
One thing I like about Technorati is that they are not afraid to setup special sites, like they did for both Live 8 and the London attacks. I think that bringing all of that information onto a single aggregated page is useful. However, like Jeremy, I find that Technorati really lags behind the other services in terms of accuracy. I subscribe to keyword feeds from Feedster, Technorati, Pubsub and BlogPulse, and I would honestly rank Technorati at the bottom of those services. The others find more items, and they generally find them much faster. Actually I am somewhat amazed at how one service can find a post and the others won’t. Happens more often than you’d think.
I have also been disappointed with the service provided by Technorati. My site has not shown up in their Tags feature for a long time, so I sent a couple of support emails. I never heard back though. The only thing I got was an automated response, and nothing further. It’s frustrating. Note the date:
I sent one more recently too, but never heard back from that one either.
I like Technorati, and I have long been a user, I just think that whether they mean to or not, they create far too many opportunities for improvement for themselves.
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