Technorati gets a Face Lift, Experiences Downtime as a Result
May 25, 2007 | Comments (4) | Filed under: Tools
Seems like everyone is rolling out some big updates these days with MyBlogLog and Technorati being the latest in the list. Today, Technorati rolled out a major overhaul of their blog indexing system that actually includes quite a few changes and a graphic facelift. This comes directly on the heels of their changes a few weeks back where they replaced the old system of Rank with a new system called Authority.
The new changes to the Technorati service include the following:
- Streamlined search that incorporates keywords, tags, and blogs into one search (I never use their search, but I am amazed this wasn’t the case already)
- Cleaned up user interface
- Some graphical toys like a scrolling blog ticker
Really, nothing too crazy to write home about, but with changes coming every few weeks it seems, Technorati appears to be making an effort toward gradually improving their service.
Today’s changes did not go off without a hitch as Technorati experienced substantial outages throughout the day as a result. According to Technorati, these outages were mostly due to missing “bot defensive” code that unfortunately was omitted from the final release of the new site. They appear to be back on track now though, so hopefully things should be normal again.
We’ll see how the community takes to these recent changes and hopefully we’ll see more updates in the near future. For those of you out there that use Technorati as a feed aggregator for your blog, do you actually do a lot of searching and article finding on the site itself? I really don’t use it for more than a way to get my feed out there a bit more, but maybe I’m missing out on a tool for finding other great blogs? What do you guys think?
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Rank is back! I have to hand it to Technorati for listening to it’s customers- check out Dave Sifry’s comments on my post about this.
I can’t believe that wasn’t the case either. And I feel sorry for the guy who forgot to put the bot code back in. I wonder if he still has a job?
I don’t use Technorati anymore. I’ve switched to other services.
http://www.elainevigneault.com/2007/05/27/blog-tools-how-to-boycott-technorati.html
Wow, I must have been completely asleep at the wheel the past few days. I had no idea Technorati made any changes and as a result experienced a service outage. Not sure if the person who had the “insert bot code to-do” got fired but I’d bet someone “ripped him a new one.”