Here’s another tidbit to the recent Technorati discussion: I think Technorati now *incorrectly* counts the results of a saved search as a link. Look at the second link below:
It looks like a saved citation search from Bloglines. Pete Cashmore wants to see all references to Mashable where he is not the author, and he excludes the major aggregators – in other words, he is looking for original citations. He probably saved the search for convenience, but that does not make it an original source, so it should not be counted as a link by Technorati.
The good news is that Dave Sifry is really good in discovering anything tagged “Technorati” really fast, so I’m sure this glitch will be fixed soon.
Update: As the comments show, Dave picked up the issue 2 1/2 hours after I posted, and another half an hour later it’sa fixed. That’s pretty good response in my book. 🙂 Now … have I just got my Technorati Rank reduced? 🙂
Hm, definitely looks like a bug. Will have the eng team check into it, thanks!
Dave
Fixed. You shouldn’t see that from now on.
Thanks for the bug report.
Dave
Wow, that was pretty good response time 🙂