Technorati Still Needs a White Knight
Blogging, Business, SaaS, Software, Startups, Technology March 5th, 2007
“I’ve complained so much about Technorati’s non-performance, it’s getting boring.” – This is a quote from a post I wrote 9 month ago. Nothing changed since then. They keep on changing the humorous (?) error messages:
No, sorry guys, it’s not a Monster. Perhaps a Snail. A Turtle at max.
I recognize Technorati for being innovators in the Blogosphere, and I prefer using it for the features. But there is one “feature” where Google Blog Search wins: it works. All the time. Technorati is dead more often than not, and even when it’s “alive”, it’s barely crawling.
Technorati is clearly an IP company ( a damned good at that) that cannot cope with the infrastructure requirements of the growing Blogosphere. Isn’t there a White Knight out there that would acquire them and save us all from this slow suffocation?
Update: Wow, quite a coincidence: Read/WriteWeb is discussing Technorati’s exit options today.
Zoli Erdos
May I suggest another site that does blog search well:
http://www.topix.net/search/?q=source%3A%22Zoli%27s+Blog%22
Granted, a mere 25,000 blogs. But they’re all hand-picked, so it’s a nice alternative when Technorati croaks.
It is a very good service but I blame all the Technorati widgets on all the blogs out there
Everytime those pages get loaded it creates loads on Technorati’s infrastructure even though no one directly triggered a search.
But isn’t that a vicious circle? We like Technorati for their innovation, which includes widgets and more… that in turn is killing them. They can’t win this race on the infrastructure side – they can win though on the innovation side. IP companies do get but by those who are less innovative but can invest in enough iron