Technorati Sucks

Technorati’s New Site Confuses All

Wow.  Technorati revamped their sites look, functionality, and apparently, the underlying business model.

Check the comments underneath their announcement for the new site.

Lots of comments.

- They are apparently moving from a “blog search” model to a “write articles for us, for free” model.    They even fib a little bit by adding an ad to everyone’s profile that says “This technorati user writes for technorati…if you are a writer, find out how you can too”. Even if that person never agreed to, or ever wrote anything for Technnorati.

- Huge issues with blogs that were deleted in the change.

- Authority scores reduced, almost across the board, with no explanation next to the new score.   There is an explanation of sorts somewhere, but you have to search around technorati.com, blogs.technorati.com, getsatisfaction.com, and a dozen other places to find it.

- Ping button removed because “we’re so good at finding your posts, we don’t need it anymore”.     Of course, invalidated in that they’ve already admitted issues with finding posts.  Heh.

- Blog search broken.  Now you have to use + symbols and other non-intuitive search strings to find what you are looking for.

All in all, a stellar mess.