After taking flak for months about Technorati performance issues, David
Sifry find reason to brag. He has been promising (see his comment
here) a big infrastructure upgrade to be completed this
fall, and now that it is finished, speed tests show off Technorati in a good light. A graph shows Technorati completing
searches as quickly as Google's Blogsearch and a mysterious entity Sifry
calls "Yahoo Blog Search." I'm not incapable of horrendous oversights, but I have searched both my memory and past
entries, and see no such product offered by Yahoo!—save the mixed news/blog search results at Yahoo! News, which can
hardly be called a blog search engine. Is Sifry talking about the
unofficial Yahoo! blog search engine put up by
Threadwatch?
Anyway, Sifry's blog post notes some bragging rights:
"Technorati's index is the most comprehensive, and has the fastest updates. The index is over 3 years old,
currently 21.5 million blog posts and over 1.7 billion links are indexed. Our median time to index is now under 3
minutes from the moment a blog post is created."
1. It will be about time! Technorati has been focuses o all kinds of things lately, but it seems that accurate spidering of blogs has not been at the top of that list. I have blogs that are taking more than 5 days to show up there, and that is even when pinged. Hopefully that will be fixed, and I can actaully add them to pages that I have been promoting icerocket istead.
Posted at 4:46AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Steve