First, thanks to Rick and to Paul for their vision in giving us a playground to talk, debate and exchange ideas regarding issues that impact our emerging new industry. And thanks for the invite to join in on the conversation.
Recently there’s been a buzz about Techorati and their search
algorithms. Just for fun I played around with a post I did yesterday on ValueClick and FastClick. Nope never made it on to their page. Noticed that my pal Dana at Pheedo, who wrote about the same topic, was listed.
Just for more fun I ran a couple of quick searches:
IceRocket picked up both Pheedo and Diva Marketing’s posts. In fact, Diva Marketing was noted before Pheedo altho Dana posted earlier.
Yahoo (beta) linked to Diva Marketing on page 1 but 5 pages in couldn’t find Pheedo.
Feedster didn’t want to play with either Pheedo or Diva Marketing.
BlogPulse didn’t link to either post.
Lesson Learned: Technorati is loosing credibility by the second while IceRocket is gaining in the search blog space.
Yeah, I have recently moved over to IceRocket instead of Technorati. I have been having much better luck on my searches.
Comment by Blaine Moore — August 5, 2005 @ 1:36 pm
We’ve been commenting on the effect of Spamblogs on Technorati recently here on PSFK
Haven;t yet checked out IceRocket – do they have a similar problem??
Comment by Piers Fawkes — August 7, 2005 @ 7:50 pm
Piers – excellent question. I’ve shot IceRocket an “e” asking for their comment.
Comment by Toby Bloomberg — August 8, 2005 @ 5:35 am
Spam blogs are definately an issue. I would suggest making searches very specific. When you search something broad like: cars, you are going to get a lot of results and a portion of those might be spam.
We are working with the folks at the blog hosting companies to solve this issue. I am confident we will find a solution quickly.
Blake
IceRocket.com
Comment by Blake — August 8, 2005 @ 7:06 am