Comments on: Technorati and the inevitable sadness of death http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Technorati zozobra | Noticias http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-819562 Technorati zozobra | Noticias Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:06:33 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-819562 [...] y lo dice Alberto y lo digo yo. Y Manuel escribe que dicen que Technorati se muere, señalando a este artículo. Y Alvy comenta en el artículo de Mangas Verdes que efectivamente él también ha notado que los [...] [...] y lo dice Alberto y lo digo yo. Y Manuel escribe que dicen que Technorati se muere, señalando a este artículo. Y Alvy comenta en el artículo de Mangas Verdes que efectivamente él también ha notado que los [...]

]]> By: More Money For Technorati? Really? http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-484869 More Money For Technorati? Really? Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:23:55 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-484869 [...] will make one observation though, in 2008, like 2005, Technorati is still broken. As a now regular user the number of times I see the message “the [...] [...] will make one observation though, in 2008, like 2005, Technorati is still broken. As a now regular user the number of times I see the message “the [...]

]]> By: Technorati successors - BlogPulse And PubSub? » Connected Internet http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-139222 Technorati successors - BlogPulse And PubSub? » Connected Internet Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:52:39 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-139222 [...] The Blog Herald has just posted an article which confirms my suspicions that Technorati isn’t as useful a tool as it used to be. Whenever I try to see who is linking to my blog the results tend to be quite hard to follow and border on being gibberish. [...] [...] The Blog Herald has just posted an article which confirms my suspicions that Technorati isn’t as useful a tool as it used to be. Whenever I try to see who is linking to my blog the results tend to be quite hard to follow and border on being gibberish. [...]

]]> By: Vida Vacia 4.1 - Edición Limitada » Chau Technorati, hola… http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-90202 Vida Vacia 4.1 - Edición Limitada » Chau Technorati, hola… Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:40:19 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-90202 [...] ts No Related Posts Technorati viene tan mal que algunos ya dicen, sin más, que se está muriendo y que ya no es más un servicio confia [...] [...] ts No Related Posts Technorati viene tan mal que algunos ya dicen, sin más, que se está muriendo y que ya no es más un servicio confia [...]

]]> By: Easy Bake Weblogs » News Roundup http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-42319 Easy Bake Weblogs » News Roundup Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:43:06 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-42319 [...] growth will peak. Intelliseek Launches BlogPulse Profiles beta as a Technorati-killer. Technorati might be slowly decaying away. Dvorak trolls on [...] [...] growth will peak. Intelliseek Launches BlogPulse Profiles beta as a Technorati-killer. Technorati might be slowly decaying away. Dvorak trolls on [...]

]]> By: roughguide » Blogscour? http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-42241 roughguide » Blogscour? Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:20:45 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-42241 [...] e certainly is opportunity in this market, as the incumbents such as Technorati seem to be creaking under the load lately. Hopefully the new tag line [...] [...] e certainly is opportunity in this market, as the incumbents such as Technorati seem to be creaking under the load lately. Hopefully the new tag line [...]

]]> By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 This Week (July 10 - 16) http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-41115 TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 This Week (July 10 - 16) Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:20:44 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-41115 [...] ive overview here. More Points of View: Dave Sifry, Syntagma, Frank Gruber, BusinessWeek, Blog Herald, ChrisWere.com, WeBreakStuff, Jeremy Wright, Jer [...] [...] ive overview here. More Points of View: Dave Sifry, Syntagma, Frank Gruber, BusinessWeek, Blog Herald, ChrisWere.com, WeBreakStuff, Jeremy Wright, Jer [...]

]]> By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-41062 Marshall Kirkpatrick Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:42:29 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-41062 I can live without the cosmos and rep tracking functions, plenty of other ways to do that. I can live without the blog search box (I'm using blogdigger now, and it works!) but I cannot live without technorati tags. They have made themselves the industry standard and they had better get their service problems taken care of, or I'm going to cry. It has always made me nervous that we bloggers link back to Technorati Tags exclusively. Especially when the damn site is unavailable half the time. I'm sure scalability is a real challenge, but what's that VC money going towards if not scalability? I can live without the cosmos and rep tracking functions, plenty of other ways to do that. I can live without the blog search box (I’m using blogdigger now, and it works!) but I cannot live without technorati tags. They have made themselves the industry standard and they had better get their service problems taken care of, or I’m going to cry. It has always made me nervous that we bloggers link back to Technorati Tags exclusively. Especially when the damn site is unavailable half the time. I’m sure scalability is a real challenge, but what’s that VC money going towards if not scalability?

]]> By: ALT1040 » Cuidado con la blogosfera http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40992 ALT1040 » Cuidado con la blogosfera Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:14:29 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40992 [...] …que te come. Jústamente eso debieron haber sentido en Technorati con una serie de posts durísmos en contra este servicio de seguimiento de bl [...] [...] …que te come. Jústamente eso debieron haber sentido en Technorati con una serie de posts durísmos en contra este servicio de seguimiento de bl [...]

]]> By: Duncan http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40973 Duncan Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:07:21 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40973 David thanks for the response, and I'm glad you've taken it the right way, because its hard not to love Technorati, I've used the service from the days when you had 100,000 blogs listed and its been a part of my blogging experience since and I really think that had you'd not been there blogging would have been the same for me and a whole pile of relatively older blogging hack. From a user perspective its just hard to cope with the bad stuff, I understand and respect that you guys are growing, maybe we'll put it down to puberty :-) David
thanks for the response, and I’m glad you’ve taken it the right way, because its hard not to love Technorati, I’ve used the service from the days when you had 100,000 blogs listed and its been a part of my blogging experience since and I really think that had you’d not been there blogging would have been the same for me and a whole pile of relatively older blogging hack. From a user perspective its just hard to cope with the bad stuff, I understand and respect that you guys are growing, maybe we’ll put it down to puberty :-)

]]> By: Hans on Experience http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40970 Hans on Experience Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:07:34 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40970 Ok David, you are listening! Great. But what about postings which do not show up at all? Or tags which are not there? Some examples: - http://technorati.com/search/blogstorm (where are my postings: http://hmestrum.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/07/ogilvy_evalueer.html and http://hmestrum.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/07/blogstorm_eerst.html) They are not in the search and in the tags? I see the same with this posting of maarten of sixapart: http://maarten.typepad.com/blogologie/2005/07/blogstorm_enkel.html Ok David, you are listening! Great. But what about postings which do not show up at all? Or tags which are not there?

Some examples:
- http://technorati.com/search/blogstorm (where are my postings: http://hmestrum.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/07/ogilvy_evalueer.html and http://hmestrum.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/07/blogstorm_eerst.html)

They are not in the search and in the tags? I see the same with this posting of maarten of sixapart: http://maarten.typepad.com/blogologie/2005/07/blogstorm_enkel.html

]]> By: David Sifry http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40960 David Sifry Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:34:49 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40960 Duncan, Thanks for the teriffic feedback and comments. I feel your pain. We sat down, listened hard to what you were saying, and then got to work. And tonight, we rolled out a raft of bug fixes and performance enhancements that should help most, if not all of the Cosmos (URL) searches you do on Technorati. Give it a go - I just did a search for links to blogherald, and the search came back in about 2 seconds: http://www.technorati.com/search/www.blogherald.com These improvements don't fix everything - some searches are still slow, and while we pride ourselves on completeness and fast index times, there's still a long way to go. Performance and scalability improvements are our top priority over the next 6 weeks. Let me give you some stats on what's going on in the blogosphere as well, just for perspective. We're now tracking over 900,000 posts per day on average, which means about 10 posts per second. We're also seeing about 80,000 new weblogs created each day. That's more weblogs created each day than there were total when I started the service in November 2002. And our search traffic has increased by over 40% month on month for each of the last 4 months. The day of the london bombings we saw over 1.2 Million posts, and had an additional 30% increase in traffic as people turned to weblogs, moblogs, and other citizen's media for instant updates on events in London, survivor accounts, and sharing of deep feelings on the tragedy. By the way, those stats are not meant as an excuse. We are in the big leagues, and we are investing in all of the infrastructure necessary to scale and handle the incredible growth of the blogosphere. I hope that we can win back your trust and that the fixes we rolled out tonight and will continue to roll out over the coming days and weeks will be of service to you. Because, in the end, that's what this is all about to us - to be of service to you. Thanks again for the great feedback and comments. I really appreciate the time you've taken to be so frank and honest with us. Dave Duncan,

Thanks for the teriffic feedback and comments. I feel your pain.

We sat down, listened hard to what you were saying, and then got to work. And tonight, we rolled out a raft of bug fixes and performance enhancements that should help most, if not all of the Cosmos (URL) searches you do on Technorati.

Give it a go – I just did a search for links to blogherald, and the search came back in about 2 seconds:

http://www.technorati.com/search/www.blogherald.com

These improvements don’t fix everything – some searches are still slow, and while we pride ourselves on completeness and fast index times, there’s still a long way to go. Performance and scalability improvements are our top priority over the next 6 weeks.

Let me give you some stats on what’s going on in the blogosphere as well, just for perspective. We’re now tracking over 900,000 posts per day on average, which means about 10 posts per second. We’re also seeing about 80,000 new weblogs created each day. That’s more weblogs created each day than there were total when I started the service in November 2002. And our search traffic has increased by over 40% month on month for each of the last 4 months. The day of the london bombings we saw over 1.2 Million posts, and had an additional 30% increase in traffic as people turned to weblogs, moblogs, and other citizen’s media for instant updates on events in London, survivor accounts, and sharing of deep feelings on the tragedy.

By the way, those stats are not meant as an excuse. We are in the big leagues, and we are investing in all of the infrastructure necessary to scale and handle the incredible growth of the blogosphere. I hope that we can win back your trust and that the fixes we rolled out tonight and will continue to roll out over the coming days and weeks will be of service to you. Because, in the end, that’s what this is all about to us – to be of service to you.

Thanks again for the great feedback and comments. I really appreciate the time you’ve taken to be so frank and honest with us.

Dave

]]> By: Chuck Olsen http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40948 Chuck Olsen Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:19:55 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40948 I've tried to be nice to our friend Technorati, turning a blind eye to his various transgressions. Sure he's been buying the drinks, but he's in a new crowd now. He's spread thin, he's laughing at the wrong jokes. I thought I knew him, but the him I knew is gone. Bartender! Another brandy manhattan, please. Seriously, it sucks. It doesn't do the very thing I've always used it for - track who is linking to my blog. Guess I'll check out BlogPulse. Feedster is good too, and faster. I’ve tried to be nice to our friend Technorati, turning a blind eye to his various transgressions. Sure he’s been buying the drinks, but he’s in a new crowd now. He’s spread thin, he’s laughing at the wrong jokes. I thought I knew him, but the him I knew is gone. Bartender! Another brandy manhattan, please.

Seriously, it sucks. It doesn’t do the very thing I’ve always used it for – track who is linking to my blog. Guess I’ll check out BlogPulse. Feedster is good too, and faster.

]]> By: » Moving Beyond Technorati TurboBlogger.com http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40947 » Moving Beyond Technorati TurboBlogger.com Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:09:01 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40947 [...] eep up with us, most notably with posts from folks like Jason Calacanis, Jeremy Wright and Duncan Riley. Today Jeremy came out with a post entitled Te [...] [...] eep up with us, most notably with posts from folks like Jason Calacanis, Jeremy Wright and Duncan Riley. Today Jeremy came out with a post entitled Te [...]

]]> By: Denken Ãœber » ¿Entró Technorati en decadencia? http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40945 Denken Ãœber » ¿Entró Technorati en decadencia? Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:18:21 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40945 [...] i en decadencia? July 13, 2005 6:17 pm | Categoría: Weblogs Manuel traduce un post de Duncan Riley sobre “Te [...] [...] i en decadencia?
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]]> By: Josh http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40925 Josh Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:08:53 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40925 Indeed, Technorati has become less and less useful as of late. 90% of the time when I punch in my URL, I get a Zero Sized Reply. They don't index my posts anymore, by keywords or by tags. I'm not sure what's wrong - maybe they don't have enough money to deal with the increased usage they're seeing. Whatever it is, unless they do a U-turn fairly soon, I think Technorati is out of the game. Indeed, Technorati has become less and less useful as of late. 90% of the time when I punch in my URL, I get a Zero Sized Reply. They don’t index my posts anymore, by keywords or by tags. I’m not sure what’s wrong – maybe they don’t have enough money to deal with the increased usage they’re seeing.

Whatever it is, unless they do a U-turn fairly soon, I think Technorati is out of the game.

]]> By: Valentin http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40924 Valentin Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:47:06 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40924 You talk about BlogPulse, PubSub, Bloglines replacing technorati - but there are lacking one central feature: they don't try to establish tags. Technorati dying now, will mean the idea of tags will die with it (at least for a while, I assume it will return some other day). You talk about BlogPulse, PubSub, Bloglines replacing technorati – but there are lacking one central feature: they don’t try to establish tags. Technorati dying now, will mean the idea of tags will die with it (at least for a while, I assume it will return some other day).

]]> By: Mangas Verdes » Technorati se muere http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40923 Mangas Verdes » Technorati se muere Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:10:19 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40923 [...] n BlogPulse, un PubSub, u Bloglines y otros, pero ¡ay! nunca será lo mismo”. Más en The Blog Herald-Traducción libre de Mangas Verdes. [...] [...] n BlogPulse, un PubSub, u Bloglines y otros, pero ¡ay! nunca será lo mismo”. Más en The Blog Herald-Traducción libre de Mangas Verdes. [...]

]]> By: Ensight - Jeremy Wright » Technorati Alternatives http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40922 Ensight - Jeremy Wright » Technorati Alternatives Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:09:21 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40922 [...] ernatives/"> Technorati Alternatives Technorati is dying, says the Blog Herald: A melodramatic t [...] [...] ernatives/”>
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]]> By: John (SYNTAGMA) http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-inevitable-sadness-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-40902 John (SYNTAGMA) Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:33:28 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/13/technorati-and-the-enevitable-sadness-of-death/#comment-40902 I fear you may be right, Duncan, which would be a great shame. I'm in a small minority it seems when I say that I still rely on Technorati for a number of services. Of course, we don't know their financial situation, but it was rather ominous when the paid subscription service was blurted out at a conference, leaving the blog world astounded. Hard choices? They need a white knight. I fear you may be right, Duncan, which would be a great shame. I’m in a small minority it seems when I say that I still rely on Technorati for a number of services. Of course, we don’t know their financial situation, but it was rather ominous when the paid subscription service was blurted out at a conference, leaving the blog world astounded. Hard choices? They need a white knight.

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