DISQUS

Thanks for the post. We continue to work on our crawler, search, and web site while also building out our ad serving platform and Technorati Media network. It's a lot for a small company to tackle, but we feel we have the right building blocks in place to deliver value to bloggers and people who read blogs while also pursuing a sound business model.

I think you may have missed the gist of Louis Gray's post in that he was indicating Technorati has a better blog search index, particularly for trackbacks, than Google Blog Search.

"And as I'm fighting off false positives with Google, Technorati is quietly finding me mentions that I can't get using Google, which relies on keywords instead of links. Not even the advanced blog search page on Google lets me find links to a site the way most bloggers want to find."

I know there are lots of areas for improvement, but I'm always happy to read that people find good in what we do and appreciate that you will give us a chance. Thanks for cheering for the little guy.

Chris, I found the problem and have fixed it. Your blog is currently listed as #79. Sorry for the inconvenience and welcome to the Technorati Top 100.

Duncan, thank you for blogging about this. We are working on the issue. I have posted to the Technorati Weblog.

"Technorati is experiencing a problem with our search result updating infrastructure. We continue to crawl and save data, however, post search results are stale and temporarily stuck at about 3pm Pacific Fri. Aug 15. Link results (reactions) are stuck at Thu. Aug 14.

We have identified the root cause and are actively working on the issue. We expect to have the system caught up during the evening hours.

No data is being lost, but the most recent posts and reactions are not reflected in results at the moment."

http://technorati.com/weblog/2008/08/442.html

Jesse, I really like what you are doing. The signup experience was smooth. Best of luck to you in your new location. If you are ever in the Bay Area, feel free to look me up at Technorati.

Congratulations! Good luck and I hope to talk to you guys soon.

Zoli, thank you for the QA. You found an obscure bug in the Technorati Favorites displayed on a signed in member's home page. This was an edge case, but inappropriate none the less. If the first item listed in your favorites was claimed by a Technorati member, the rest of the items displayed on the page used the same member name.

No blogs were actually changed or transferred as this was a display glitch.

I have just patched our servers, so Guy will have to relinquish his claim to TechCrunch.

Thanks again, Dorion

Jim, if you'd care to write a post about your top 3 ideas for Technorati, I'd love to read it. Might even be able to do something about it :)

Andy, thanks for the feedback on Topics and for pointing out some of the issues with Popular. I'll be looking into it today. We are working hard to get updates working 100% of the time but problems do arise. Thanks for pointing them out. Ben, I'll see what I can do for your blog.

BTW, I've been with Technorati for 3 of its 4 years. Dorion

Doug, this is great. Thanks for sharing this with everyone. I'll see if we can get it on the tools page.

Thank you for your kind words. You have very nicely summarized so many aspects of what we were thinking as we put WTF together. The best part about this experiment is not knowing where it will lead.

Thanks again for your thoughtful analysis and hope you like it enough to submit more blurbs.

Let's just say it was people, talking to people, and a little bit of email (automated through blog comments).

Does that count? dc

Vince, sorry you had to reach us via Doug's blog, but I found the problem with your blog's configuration in our system, fixed it, generated a new ping, and I now see your recent posts in our index.

Again, sorry about that. Dorion

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you like it and thank you for letting others know.