Comments on: Does Technorati Matter? (Searching for Violent Acres)

By: Am I One Of Your Favorites? · Elaine Vigneault

Am I One Of Your Favorites? · Elaine Vigneault — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:54:14 +0000

[...] your blog gets favorited, you get a little boost in traffic. And it is little, as engtech points out. But if we all start using the favorite system, I bet that will [...]

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:45:52 +0000

Andy Beard has some experiments / stats going on:
http://andybeard.eu/2007/04/which-technorati-top-keyword-gets-you-splogged-the-most-part1.html

By: Nita

Nita — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:10:23 +0000

I use Technorati to find out about the other blogs which are linking to me. They give fairly detailed information about the other blogs and also their recent posts. At times I click on those posts.
However if I want to search I go to Google. At times to Clusty. Clusty is very good.

By: SteveX Compiled » Blog Archive » Technorati

SteveX Compiled » Blog Archive » Technorati — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:45:43 +0000

[...] anonymous blogger (seriously, he’s anonymous) writes: It’s a very useful site for keeping track of who is [...]

By: Interesting: Technorati’s WTF » Webomatica

Interesting: Technorati’s WTF » Webomatica — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:40:05 +0000

[...] that as far as blog search is concerned (which is supposed to be Technorati’s purpose) is kind of floundering. One complaint I have is that Technorati includes MySpace blogs. Therefore, a search for even [...]

By: joy

joy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:12:54 +0000

I have the same problem as Webomatica. I tried to use Technorati to find some content to link to from my blog, but I get a lot of myspaces. I’m not saying that there aren’t quality myspace posts (there are so many, some of them have to be good), but most aren’t.

By: Ilya Lichtenstein

Ilya Lichtenstein — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:28:40 +0000

Violent Acres in general is one of those self-perpetuating Internet phenomena. Once she gets an initial reader base by attacking other bloggers/being outrageous, she can manipulate that reader base to do more outrageous things, thus attracting more readers because she’s so outrageous, etc etc ad infinitum.
No such thing as bad publicity, as they say.

By: Jon Swift

Jon Swift — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:14:24 +0000

Violent Acres: The Mother Teresa of Cyberspace

She is like a female Mark Foley; he didn’t merely spout empty rhetoric about how dangerous the Internet could be for kids, but actually went out and proved it.

By: engtech

engtech — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:09:29 +0000

It looks like the Violent Acres search term is dropping from the #1 position. That makes me think that Alaesme was on the money and the spike was because VA mentioned Technorati last week and her readers searched on it, but didn’t click on anything they found because they were looking for haters.

(I ran a few tests to see if it was possible to exploit search terms, and it wasn’t as trivial as this MyBlogLog exploit)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:56:44 +0000

I’ve always wondered why the majority of the popular search terms are IT/internet/technology related. It would seem to suggest thats all people are interested in reading about but is that really the case? Or is it a select few who are actually using Technorati to do their blog searches which is skewing the statistics?

By: ilyka

ilyka — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:24:52 +0000

Someone is spamming the search terms to get the number 1 position. (Least likely)

Considering it’s Violent Acres? MOST likely.

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:50:37 +0000

@TagMan: I haven’t been paying attention to the Technorati Pop page as much as you have.

So this is a common occurrence?