Comments on: Welcome to Alexa 2.0: Technorati

By: xavierv

xavierv — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think that when the Founders of Technorati started their engine, they never designed it so that it could scale, and now, it is just a big unmanageable data mess.

They need to start from scratch again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

technorati is never right

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

First, you are right. Technorati carries very little relevance these days. Second, I’m surprised you thought it still did. Didn’t most of us give up on Technorati being accurate a year or so ago?

Of interest, thanks to my moving away from more sensational posts vs. this spring, my “Authority” has dropped from over 1,000 (briefly) to about 700+. And… I’ll live.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Louis – I agree that most of us have given up on Technorati – problem is – advertisers are still peeking at it. This is the issue.

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen, the irony is that as far as I know Duncan’s Inquisitr is now in the Technorati Media network and this fluctuation of authority might affect their own sales efforts. Same is very true for Profy as I saw the rank dropping by almost half last week. I guess the guys just don’t use their own authority as a measure to sell ads. Besides, we have all assigned our traffic to Technorati and they use comScore to measure it – so they just must use a parameter with better reputation. But the problem is that it is not good as they position the ad network as the conversational network and try to explain the value of advertising on blogs to potential advertisers. And this authority is exactly the value blogs have.