Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Technorati makes me sad
In the entire history of this blog, I do not think that we have gone 48 hours without having been indexed by Technorati. Suddenly, the great connector of the blogosphere has gone kaput. This blog has not been indexed in nine days notwithstanding numerous automatic and infinite pings. This is very stressful, since indexing in Technorati is the most common means by which bloggers signal that they have linked back. With Technorati down for this blog, at least, nobody knows what I'm writing about unless they come here directly.
Part of the problem is that Technorati has remained silent notwithstanding the squeals of countless bloggers. Judging from this thread on the Technorati discussion boards, there is a widespread and systematic problem with "Blogspot" blogs -- owned by Google -- in particular. One is forced to wonder whether the indexing strike (or failure) does not have something to do with the competitive battle between Technorati and Google's new "blogsearch" function. Regardless, Technorati needs to speak and reassure us all that it is not going under, because thousands of bloggers are, as my daughter would say, having a wiggins as I write this.
MORE: Finally, at around 8 am New Year's Eve, Technorati indexed this blog. Is it back, or was this merely a placating tease? We shall soon see.
3 Comments:
By 
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Tue Dec 30, 11:22:00 PM:
If Technorati makes you sad, being added to the LGF blogroll must go some distance towards making up for it. Congratulations on your well deserved success!
By 
TigerHawk, at
Tue Dec 30, 11:27:00 PM:
Thanks for the note on LGF, but actually I've been on it for years. The LGF blogroll rotates, and so this blog crops up pretty often. An honor, to be sure, but not the boon to traffic that Technorati is.
By smitty1e, at
Wed Dec 31, 06:47:00 AM:
Once you've had an Instapundit link or two, you get added to peoples' Google Reader.
