---
title: "What’s wrong with Technorati?"
date: 2004-12-13
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2004"
    url: "/tag/2004.md"
---

# What’s wrong with Technorati?

What, my links not good enough for you [Technorati](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://technorati.com/)? 😉 I say that with a wink, but to be honest I’m pissed off with Technorati. My main weblog, [Read/Write Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://www.readwriteweb.com/), is not being indexed there and so **none of my outbound links** show up in Technorati. Therefore nobody would know I’m linking to them, if they’re only using Technorati to track blogs. And let’s face it, they are the number 1 blog indexing service – by popularity if not by quality of service.

There’s no reason why this should be the case – I’ve got Movable Type set up to auto-ping them for each post, my weblog is “claimed” at Technorati, I have them linked on my main menu (and all this was done ages ago). So why the heck am I not a part of the [“World Live Web”](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://www.technorati.com/help/faq.html#wlw)?!

I’ve sent two messages to Technorati Support about this, but I’ve yet to receive a response. So what more can I do but blog it and hope they see this… And I wonder how many other people Technorati is ignoring?

I don’t like to be negative about a Web 2.0 company doing its best to earn a crust in this new world. I go out of my way to write about Web 2.0 companies that offer great services to the blogosphere, especially the innovative ones like [Feedburner](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://www.feedburner.com/) and [Bloglines](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://www.bloglines.com/). All of the other indexing services are giving me excellent value – [Feedster](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://www.feedster.com/), [PubSub](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://www.pubsub.com/), [Blogdigger](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045014/http://www.blogdigger.com/), etc. So Technorati, please hurry up and start acknowledging my existence. My blog is “live”, last time I checked!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002553.php))*