Comments for What's wrong with Technorati?

What's wrong with Technorati?

2004-12-13T14:39:23Z

What, my links not good enough for you Technorati? ;-) I say that with a wink, but to be honest I'm pissed off with Technorati. My main weblog, Read/Write Web, is not being indexed there and so none of my outbound links show up in Technorati. Therefore nobody would know I'm linking to them, if they're only using Technorati to track blogs. And let's face it, they are the number 1 blog indexing service - by popularity if not by quality of service.

There's no reason why this should be the case - I've got Movable Type set up to auto-ping them for each post, my weblog is "claimed" at Technorati, I have them linked on my main menu (and all this was done ages ago). So why the heck am I not a part of the "World Live Web"?!

I've sent two messages to Technorati Support about this, but I've yet to receive a response. So what more can I do but blog it and hope they see this... And I wonder how many other people Technorati is ignoring?

I don't like to be negative about a Web 2.0 company doing its best to earn a crust in this new world. I go out of my way to write about Web 2.0 companies that offer great services to the blogosphere, especially the innovative ones like Feedburner and Bloglines. All of the other indexing services are giving me excellent value - Feedster, PubSub, Blogdigger, etc. So Technorati, please hurry up and start acknowledging my existence. My blog is "live", last time I checked!

Comment from Alexander on 2004-12-13

2004-12-14T04:11:08Z

Hi Richard,

It is Alex from Mobileread. First let me say congrats to this wonderful blog of yours. I like your writing!

To reassure you, Technorati has you on its index list. Check out the second item (at the time of this post) of my personal watchlist tracking incoming links to Mobileread:
http://www.technorati.com/watchlists/rss.html?wid=8997

Cheers

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2004-12-13

2004-12-14T04:37:24Z

Hi Alex,

That's actually my linkblog, which they *are* tracking. It's my main blog which they're *not* tracking, much to my growing annoyance.

ps thanks for the nice words about my blog :-)

cheers, Richard

Comment from David Sifry on 2004-12-13

2004-12-14T05:51:52Z

Richard,

Sorry about that! I'm doubly surprised that you haven't gotten any support from us, even though you have written in - we're working really hard to respond whenever someone has a comment or notes an issue.

I'm going to make sure one of our engineers looks into your problem first thing tomorrow.

Thanks for letting us know about the problem, and sorry about the problem!

BTW, if you're not getting the response you'd like, you can send me an email at dsifry at technorati dot com or call me - my direct line is 415 846-0232.

Dave

Comment from Randy Charles Morin on 2004-12-14

2004-12-14T20:49:46Z

I tried a trackback on your site and it hung for about a minute before responding SUCCESS. But, I don't see the trackback. Thought, I might just drop the link... right... here...

http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20041213140112

By the way, you blog is throwing endless PHP errors right now. Thought you'd want to know. Sounds like Scoble DDoSed your blog ;)

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2004-12-14

2004-12-14T21:24:39Z

Hi Randy,

The trackback did actually work (I just don't have them inline with the comments).

Thanks for telling me about the php errors. That should be fixed now. :-)

cheers,

Comment from Kevin Marks on 2004-12-14

2004-12-14T22:41:15Z

Sorry about that Richard - your unusual 'RSS feeds more complete than the homepage' organisation was confusing our spiders, but they have had it explained to them now, and are tracking your links in detail.