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.
Comments
Oh…almost missed the best part.
If you are logged into Technorati, and want to use the forums or other features to complain about this stuff…
Too bad. You can’t.
You have to create a completely separate login to use the help forums.
Hahahahaha.
admin
October 14th, 2009
Not to mention the fact that Technorati so called support never answers emails – even when you have a legit problem.
Nothing in your blog profile will stay changed if you update your information and the tags remain blank.
I could go on and on, but people are going to leave them for other services like Networked blogs on Facebook and forget who they ever where.
Technorati is lost on what Seth Godin lectures.
Eight Women Dream
December 4th, 2009
I know. It’s sad to see them go down like this. Alot of people find blogs on Twitter. Blogcatalog is also super fantastic!
Evgeny
April 10th, 2010
I hate the new system. According to technorati, my site has an authority of 1 – a drop in almost 130 points from the old system. I can’t figure it out either. I have thousands of sites linking to mine…seems like my site should have more authority, right? Wrong. I think the issue is that since those sites aren’t all “blogs” – and since those that are aren’t all registered directly with technorati – they don’t count.
Riddle me this…how is it that I can get on the first page of Google for some keyword searches…but have no authority on technorati?
Bottom line…technorati sucks.
D. Travis North
June 23rd, 2010