Dog Pile On Technorati

Technorati is taking some serious heat in the past few weeks from the blogosphere. The search engine has been trashed by no fewer than 5 well-known search industry bloggers. It would seem an interesting coincidence (though I prefer the phrase "anomalous synchronicity") that Jason Dowdell's ferocious Jason Kottke joined the Technorati haters club with: "That's it. I've had it. No more Technorati. I've used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that time, it's been down at least a quarter of the time (although it's been better recently), results are often unavailable for queries with large result sets (i.e. this is only going to become a bigger problem as time goes on), and most of the rest of the time it's slow as molasses." Norton, Wilson, and Calacanis welcomed their new brethren to the club, each admitting they abandoned the search engine months ago. "I stopped using Technorati a few months ago, not because the results are spam-infested and out of date (which they are) but because the site is just way too slow. No way am I going to wait 15 seconds for results in the world of Google. (I was also slightly flabbergasted by their Godzilla-barfs-a-box-of-Crayolas site redesign but that's another problem)," wrote