Technorati:

Technorati has released a blog search beta feature called Blog Finder. The new service, which is still in beta is supposed to find blogs that are about a given subject as opposed to the standard listings which show posts about it. The way that they are doing this leaves something to be desired.

The service determines relevancy by looking at how many of a given blog’s posts are about the subject, and rankings are determined by link popularity. Thus a blog within the threshold to be returned that has a lot of backlinks in the blogosphere will rank higher than another blog that has fewer backlinks, even though the second blog might actually be more tightly focused on, and thus relevant to, the search term.

Many are already blasting Technorati for this claiming the feature is wprthless and already broken. I’m prepared to cut a little more slck, since it is a beta release. Ostensibly one might assume that this means they feel it is subject to correction and alteration based on it’s performance. I’m ready to call it a good first step.

Ofcourse this also comes at a time when meny prominent bloggers are blasting technorati anyways. Complaints range from unresponsiveness of the srever, to irelevance, to being spam filled with no substance. Personally, I always seem to get my results, though they can at times be a little slow, and I do find relevant listings, which is why I do search there.

I think a lot of the recent attacks on technorati are unwarented, and this is just the latest example. A lot of bloggers are becoming somewhat primadonnaish and complaints about relatively minor things are blow out of proportion and blasted theough the blogoshere in whining, adolescent rants more suited to the teen angst journals at certain well known blogging services, than to real serious blogs.

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Dane Morgan wrote this in the early morning: