Comments on: The Technorati dance http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/03/technorati/ Technology, politics, culture Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/03/technorati/#comment-107 Mark Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:01:38 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1087#comment-107 I've been tracking my site against some competing sites that use the same tag. Depending on the time of day, the top sites will disappear from the list -- always the same ones. Another problem: the recent phenomenon of blog roll rings where blogs display a blog roll that contains their site and all other participants. Such sites rocket to the top of rankings. This is basically a neo-link farm. As someone said above, Technorati does not respond to comments or complaints. I think it's just going to get worse now that their big Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/Amazon acquisition dreams have faded, their staff is shrinking, and it's just become a 9-to-5 job. I’ve been tracking my site against some competing sites that use the same tag. Depending on the time of day, the top sites will disappear from the list — always the same ones.

Another problem: the recent phenomenon of blog roll rings where blogs display a blog roll that contains their site and all other participants. Such sites rocket to the top of rankings. This is basically a neo-link farm.

As someone said above, Technorati does not respond to comments or complaints. I think it’s just going to get worse now that their big Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/Amazon acquisition dreams have faded, their staff is shrinking, and it’s just become a 9-to-5 job.

]]> By: Michael Moncur http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/03/technorati/#comment-106 Michael Moncur Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:09:37 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1087#comment-106 I've been experiencing this for about a year. At first I thought it was some weird attempt at spam, but since then I've seen enough trustworthy sites randomly show up in my search feed to know it's just corrupt data. Glad they're working on it. I’ve been experiencing this for about a year. At first I thought it was some weird attempt at spam, but since then I’ve seen enough trustworthy sites randomly show up in my search feed to know it’s just corrupt data.

Glad they’re working on it.

]]> By: Eric Savitz http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/03/technorati/#comment-105 Eric Savitz Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:30:38 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1087#comment-105 I noticed the same thing this week...for a while it looked like I was being linked to primarily by a combination of porn sites and MySpace pages. I also noticed that at one point this week the NUMBER of links coming to my page seemed to take a sudden drop, then jumped back to where it was. Weird. Are there any other sites that do any similar tracking? I noticed the same thing this week…for a while it looked like I was being linked to primarily by a combination of porn sites and MySpace pages. I also noticed that at one point this week the NUMBER of links coming to my page seemed to take a sudden drop, then jumped back to where it was. Weird. Are there any other sites that do any similar tracking?

]]> By: Jeremy Wright http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/03/technorati/#comment-104 Jeremy Wright Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:01:46 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1087#comment-104 I've reported this about a dozen times. To the point where support has largely stopped responding. I’ve reported this about a dozen times. To the point where support has largely stopped responding.

]]> By: Mike http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/03/technorati/#comment-103 Mike Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:20:33 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1087#comment-103 I noticed my most recent inbound links go from a day ago to about a week ago over night recently. The counts seemed the same. One thing I like about Technorati is they seem to comment on everybody's blog that writes about a problem. It makes it seem like they care and are doing something about it. I noticed my most recent inbound links go from a day ago to about a week ago over night recently. The counts seemed the same.

One thing I like about Technorati is they seem to comment on everybody’s blog that writes about a problem. It makes it seem like they care and are doing something about it.

]]> By: Kevin Marks http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/03/technorati/#comment-102 Kevin Marks Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:14:36 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1087#comment-102 Scott, sorry about this. We have seen this happen transiently, and it has been very hard to track down - the feed reader will freeze it in the act, but when we check the site it looks OK. We have pinned down the cause to an occasional synchronisation mismatch between 2 of our backend systems, and are working to make sure it doesn't happen any more. Thanks for your patience, and appreciation of the serendipity. Scott, sorry about this. We have seen this happen transiently, and it has been very hard to track down - the feed reader will freeze it in the act, but when we check the site it looks OK.
We have pinned down the cause to an occasional synchronisation mismatch between 2 of our backend systems, and are working to make sure it doesn’t happen any more.
Thanks for your patience, and appreciation of the serendipity.

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