With 70 million plus blogs the demand for sites that track and search blogs has risen a good deal. Technorati, being the primary player in that space has had a tough time keeping up. There are myriad blogs complaining about the site being down or other issues.
While my experience with them has been mostly good (and again other options are pretty limited) when they do go down bloggers everywhere seem to go into a frenzy. That whole self-importance effect of the empowered masses.
Not sure my comments came from a sense of self importance or that I was in a frenzy. I dig Technorati and rely heavily on it, so when it’s not working, it makes my life harder.
How many times have you gone to do a Google search and found the site down? This is a genuine competitive issue.
“That whole self-importance effect of the empowered masses.”
Your cynicism is so 1999. LIghten up.
It’s not so much that when Technorati goes down, we get into a frenzy, but instead, the amount of time Technorati is down vs. other cogs in the blogosphere, like MySpace or Blogger or Google, etc. is incredible. A solution needs to be found so that their service is bulletproof. Thousands of other sites have done it. Why can’t they?
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