{"id":1224,"date":"2006-10-02T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-10-02T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:13:22","slug":"technorati_usel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Technorati = Useless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone else noticed that the newest version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/\" target=\"browser\">Technorati<\/a> is basically useless? Does anyone at Technorati pay attention or care?<\/p>\n<p>Go over and click on a search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/www.windsofchange.net?start=30\" target=\"browser\">windsofchange.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the results &#8211; most of them are either a) posts within WoC itself (from the &#8216;read more&#8217; links); or b) blogrolls of sites that have update recently that contain WoC.<\/p>\n<p>I went and looked for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/smythesworld.blogspot.com%2F\" target=\"browser\">Smythe&#8217;s World<\/a> as a control&#8230;same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Look, it would be ridiculously easy to eliminate results from within sites (or at minimum from &#8216;read more and other set links) and equally easy to eliminate results from blogrolls. If they can&#8217;t figure out how to do it, they can buy a day of my time and a plane ticket and I&#8217;ll go show them.<\/p>\n<p>Or I could get off my butt and build a better one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Technorati so useless, and why doesn&#8217;t anyone there care?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}