Technorati troubles. But try searching the news

Hmm...I am sorry to hear this. It kind of feels like losing an old friend. It was you and Technorati that helped me understand this whole blog medium.

You are ok...right Steve?

There’s a very practical reason why searching for “Technorati” on Technorati isn’t helpful: it pulls up every blog post that has a Technorati Tags section. That's literally every blog. If you had searched for “Technorati Sifry” or “Technorati lay-offs” you would have gotten better results.

But Google blog search really stinks for counting links--that is, unless you're one of those high-linked, high ranked blogs. And that's NOT the majority of blogs. Not to mention that when Google took over Blogger, it penalized bloggers who did not convert their templates to the simple-stupid automated templates by placing NOFOLLOW tags in their metadata--subsequently bumping them out of search. Sure, a blog can get back into Google search by pinging Google's index, but at times that takes up to 8 weeks to happen.

And Icerocket, while I like Blake Rhodes, still counts more splog links than it does legit blog links. So, for bloggers checking links and ranks, it's not so hot.

Technorati, even with its "adjustments" and occasional maintenance outages, is still the best for alerting bloggers to who's linking. (and for popularity stuff too.)

Thousands of Google search results will lead you to the technorati site and the frustration is that you can never find the links of what you searched for in Google toolbar. This is how technorati becomes an intruder, and problematic.