Another Why Does Technorati Do This?
One more why Technorati? to add to the many. There’s the usual ‘why do updates take weeks’ and ‘why does emailing help’ typically get a response that says try us again in a week. A few weeks ago I actually got a response from help via email telling me that their embed code was buggy (not that this helped much).
My current why is about the my favorites functionality.
Of the 24 favorites I have listed in Technorati, 5 are supposedly non-existent, including a Gartner blog.
When I click on the top url I get the following message page:
“HUH?
There are blogs, and then there’s whatever you just typed in. If it’s a blog, we don’t know about it. Maybe you made a typo. Or maybe it’s a blog that doesn’t exist. Maybe you don’t exist. (In which case, please ignore this.)”
Now when I click on the secondary url in the listing it works perfectly well, and I can also access these through a bookmark or feedreader. This apparently applies to anyone’s favorites that have no Technorati links to them, including one of Robert Scoble’s 11 favorites (a Microsoft url).
So what is the point of the slightly insulting message?
I regularly forget to go to my Blog rather than Post tab and click on that second url. Some of my favorite feeds are in my Technorati favorites, but by no means all. Only a feedreader recognizes all my favorites.
