I wanted to write about the problems that Technorati seems to encounter these days. There it is. Via Micro Persuasion, I read this really interesting article wrote by Mr. Baker. You were questioning yourself about the current problems of the Technorati blog search engine? Read that article and you will have the answer to all your questions.

Some weeks ago, they changed all their system design. It seems that it was an in-deep re-modeling of the software and databases. The result is that they seem to have unexpected problems due to the overload of blog posts (especially after the London bomb attack).

I personally experienced many problems: slow searching, impossibility to send queries, my “links” status is not updated for my new domain name (despite the fact that I have in reality 16 links), and the indexing seem really low.

So, I am not hammering Technorati. Technorati is a really great search engine for blogs that is in the center of the blog’s trend explosion. However, they have software development and implementation problems, like many other companies. Technorati is the only service I know that give me a feed of the posts where people link-back to my domain name (the only problem is that it seems that it is not properly really working with the new system).

What is the result of this situation? There is a market waiting and no suitable blogging search engine (except Technorati that improve some problems). So the door is wide open to welcome any new search engines like Technorati. Yahoo seems to develop and test concepts and systems in that trend, and Google is probably also developing their own.

So, you are an entrepreneur? You are searching something to develop and commercialize? Then there is an idea. You think that you could not do it? Think about Google in 1998, have they succeeded? I think so.

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