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TC became wildly popular and influential not because of the opinionate bashing of other companies. It became popular because of its timely and mostly unbiased reporting. Frankly speaking, we all have our own brains and don’t really need your thinking/judging for us. Forget that little secret of success may quickly turn people off and lead to demise of the beloved blog/news site. Please consider this friendly advice.

None other than TechCrunch!

Technorati is a great company, I believe they’ve stayed focused and executed well, the site is a pleasure to use. The trouble is that their sharp focus on blog search put them in direct competition with Google. And now that the new WordPress release (2.3) has switched from Technorati to Google (for tracking backlinks) they must really be in a tough situation.

Admittedly beating Google in the blog search game is very tough. As a vertical search engine, Technorati must focus on what makes blog seach different from normal search. The timeline, authority, spam, discussions / comments, personalisation, and cluster results by opinions (at least positive / negative) and topics. When I search for “web 2.0″ on Technorati I don’t just want the latest blog posts featuring the keyword. I want a timeline of popularity, people and sources that are authorities on the subject, popular opinions and how they change over time. I want a geographic view of where it’s happening and where it began. I want to know the topics that are correlated, companies and people that are often cited. I want to see famous quotes on the subject. I want to track certain subjects over time and discussions on specific posts.

It’s a tough problem, sure. But that’s what will make Technorati stand out from Google blog search.

If you are alive, you have an opinion. If you have an opinion, then you are biased.

Hence the reason why blogs and editorials are popular, and the media is fading in their vain attempts at being “objective.”

EVERYONE ON TECHCRUNCH: it should be obvious by now that MA has a vendetta against Technorati, and you are right to question if he is being given incentives by Techmeme and other rivals. MA actually misquotes data, or purposely uses old data to slam Technorati, which is still, objectively in terms of data quality and quantity (though not speed), better than Google.

it just sort of comes out of my mouth without thinking because of this, when I say it. it’s probably the same here.

So, you were probably one of those kids who took his ball and went home when you could not be quarterback. But, then again, you probably were also the kid who would not have been invited in the first place unless you had the ball.

Your readers define your company’s value and I am quite confident that you pitch techcrunch as a foremost source of information for a large number of influential readers in the technology world. Readers that in large part have got to expect objective stories with opinions not stated as fact.

Keep up the biased reporting and disregard for your readers and I and many others will certainly move to a credible source who understands the importance of journalistic integrity.

Please refrain from your commonly used method of dealing with dissenting opinions by classifying them as SPAM and deleting them.

I can recall a time where Technorati had the top spot in the market but it didn’t fare well thereafter - I think it seemed that they didn’t have the ability to cope with or maximize their growth and now they’re at the disadvantage. I can recall when it was really common that it came up among publicity clients back in the day. Nobody - and I’m not just saying it - brings it up at all anymore. They talk about Techmeme.

So, if Techmeme is a “nice little site”, I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t a “big pain in the ass” for technorati.

1. Manufacture controversy to generate interest and readers
2. Hide behind the blurred line of “opinion” or “reporting”
3. If criticized, 1st response is to defend, 2nd is to backtrack a little
4. Smile all the way to the bank
5. Goto #1

Techcrunch is a great little site and there are a lot of cool things on here

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When a user clicks on your blog to add you as a favorite, and they have not yet signed up. They should be prompted to sign up, BUT,

BUT,

BUTTTTTT,,

Your blog should be auto-added on their favorites list immediately after sign up.
As it is now they have to sign up, then they have to GO BACK TO YOUR BLOG, and re-press the add to favorites button in order to add the blog.

That is RETARDED. Please fix this, that is a bug in anybody’s book.
Thanks!

I don’t want to have a hugely successful site (like TechMeme) and still be doing all this stuff myself. I want grunts. I want account executives. I want a 36D receptionist.

This takes nothing away from Techmeme, but I think even Gabe would be hardpressed to seriously compare the two services. That’s not belittling, that’s a fact.