Technorati Gets More Cash - No, No, I Am Serious!

PE Hub reported today that Technorati just got another round of investment - this time it's a $7.5 million on a Series D. Now they have about $30 million from investors including: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital, and FG Incubation.

Technorati continues to disappoint me with their inaccurate blog scoring and their poor blog search. I still believe half of their servers are not updating properly. Sometimes when you visit a blog's stats page, you get nothing, sometimes you get a higher score than "normal" and other times you get half of the page.  

Dan Frommer reports that after the announcement the Technorati service went down from massive traffic. He believes that many people went to the site after many years of ignoring it, assuming it was dead.

CEO Richard Jalichandra seems to do a good job of hitting the party and event circuit so perhaps that helped the company to receive the funding. Last year I wrote a column at BlogWorld about Jalichandra where I said he "blew it." Though on the positive side, he did try to friend me on LinkedIn last month. Last year, I even offered the company five suggestions to immediately improve Technorati.

Perhaps Technorati and Alexa should merge?