Comments on: Technorati CEO Search Confirmed

By: Technorati Revamp, Failure | Losfer

Technorati Revamp, Failure | Losfer — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:59:32 +0000

[...] the deck chairs on the Titanic. Technorati has lurched from one crisis to another this year, losing a CEO and downsizing as it attempted to be everything to everybody whilst failing to deliver a killer [...]

By: Technorati Loses A “Great Leader.” PodTech Also Loses CEO | Tekjuice.com

Technorati Loses A “Great Leader.” PodTech Also Loses CEO | Tekjuice.com — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:30:40 +0000

[...] all known that blog search engine Technorati and videocasting site PodTech weren’t doing particularly well: that both companies were conducting CEO searches. But today the bloodletting became [...]

By: SocialText Looks For New CEO | Tekjuice.com

SocialText Looks For New CEO | Tekjuice.com — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:34:39 +0000

[...] weren’t able to control, or even contribute to, the messaging, and by the time CEO Dave Sifry confirmed the search a lot of damage had already been done to the [...]

By: Just a random blog !

Just a random blog ! — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:31:20 +0000

[...] weren’t able to control, or even contribute to, the messaging, and by the time CEO Dave Sifry confirmed the search a lot of damage had already been done to the [...]

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Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:18:14 +0000

[...] weren’t able to control, or even contribute to, the messaging, and by the time CEO Dave Sifry confirmed the search a lot of damage had already been done to the [...]

By: SocialText Looks For New CEO

SocialText Looks For New CEO — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:55:57 +0000

[...] weren’t able to control, or even contribute to, the messaging, and by the time CEO Dave Sifry confirmed the search a lot of damage had already been done to the [...]

By: KilRoY66

KilRoY66 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:12:13 +0000

Before searching as CEO Technorati must find an adeguate support team.
Try to visit their support website. A lot of peoples, like me, without assistance.
http://support.technorati.com/

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:53:43 +0000

Dont agree to the dead pool for technorati. Some people are looking for other stuff than what Google gives every day. If you want to be surprised, find new informations, you need to go one blogs. Even if, there are -by definition - much more useless things in those place

By: tawm

tawm — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:31:56 +0000

I don’t get it.

Technorati sucks big time, many readers seem to agree with me. When it’s not down or too slow, it has always provided me with useless results.

How is it possible that it is still alive… for FOUR years now?!? Who are these people that use it on a regular basis (apparently they exist)? Bad services end up in the dead pool — why isn’t this one???

By: Ayal Rosenthal

Ayal Rosenthal — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:15:54 +0000

Its a little hard knowing that your main competitor is google, who like Microsoft before them, has more money than G-d. Its especially hard knowing that their focusing on your bread and butter. Technorati has worked well for me and the market can support muliple players, but potential profitability may suffer in the long-term.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:22:21 +0000

I tried Technorati a few times but generally couldn’t find what I wanted (perhaps it was too technical), while at Google’s Blog Search I had much more luck (though still not great).

By: Rajeev Vashsiht

Rajeev Vashsiht — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:20:26 +0000

Cool the leader has to be choosen very carefully as the future revenues and bottomline depends on the ingenuity of leaders to provide regular growth impetus to the company.

http://www.tekno-world.blogspot.com

By: Brian Laks

Brian Laks — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:20:05 +0000

Google should definitely swipe up Technorati. Who cares that they already have blog search? They already had Google Video when they bought YouTube (though the merits of that purchase are debated). And this would give them a crushing stranglehold on this niche. I wonder if anti-trust legislation applies to blog search engines…

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:14:56 +0000

I predict an acquisition by Microsoft or Yahoo! in the next 12 months. They both need a product like Technorati to compete with Google.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:50:58 +0000

Technorati a media company? I don’t see it. It’s just a blog search company, and it sucks at that, although that’s probably not their fault, since keeping up with the amount of blog spam out there is impossible.

As for Tailrank, if it weren’t for Kevin Burton’s incessant spamming of the Techcrunch comments, nobody would have ever heard of it. Who uses Tailrank?

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:04:05 +0000

Interesting, esp in light of his recent “state of the live web”…I smell major changes

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:36:18 +0000

Nobody want Techno; therefore Ask will take them and make it worse than it already is.

By: Marcus Kazmierczak

Marcus Kazmierczak — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:33:33 +0000

Lately I’ve been seeing a large amount of RSS feeds returned in Google’s search results. I’m not sure how this ties into their blog indexing, it seems like more people would be linking to actual articles instead of the feed content.

Here’s an example search I just did recently which has the wordpress RSS tag feed returned first in my results:
http://www.google.com/search?q.....per+script

By: pr0xy k1ll3r

pr0xy k1ll3r — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:13:39 +0000

Technorati sucks.
Slow, slow, slow!
Terrible customer support
They contradict their own results. Inaccurate as always!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:13:36 +0000

A purchase of Technorati would be about more than blog search…try Microformats. And frankly, Microformats fit exactly with Google’s mission to organize the world’s information. The question is how to get MF’s adopted across the new web publishing landscape to increase their value…

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:04:58 +0000

Let’s go down the buyers:

1) Google doesn’t want Technorati because it they already have their own blog search

2) Yahoo doesn’t want Technorati because it costs too much?

3) Microsoft - probably the best potential buyer, they’re way behind in search and don’t really have anything worthwhile. And they can pay a high price. It could happen.

By: navot

navot — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:56:22 +0000

i think he is right

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:42:53 +0000

#8 Vikram - as I noted the other day, Google has absolutely no need (or reason) to purchase Techno. Dave came out with a statement that really needed clarification - unfortunately my request to speak with someone at Technorati has not been responded to.

It seems like a good place to work and #15 former employee says the same. Technorati should stick to “authority” instead of the search.

By: Webszene

Webszene — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:26:34 +0000

Jobausschreibung bei Technorati…

Technorati sucht einen neuen CEO!
Interesse? Na dann mal schnell bewerben bevor die Jungs dort selbst einen Nachfolger des amtierenden CEO Dave Sifry finden.
Quelle: Techchrunch
……

By: Jason DeFillippo

Jason DeFillippo — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:14:43 +0000

As a former Technorati-ite (employee 13) I have to say Dave was one of the most amazing people to work for and what he’s done over there is a testament to how a small group of people with the right leader can build something remarkable. I hope they find a great fit and let Dave get his hands dirty again since that’s where I think his real passion lies and not to mention he’s really really good at it

Rock on TR and good luck in the search!