Specifically, MY emails.

Why? I have 21 blogs listed on Technorati. Now, the ones I continually update, The English Guy and Balanced News Blog are kept “up to date” on Technorati‘s side. They accurately show when the blogs were “last updated”.

But the rest? Most of them have dates of 143 days (as of today, Jan 31st). Now that’s odd because I update many of them once a day, sometimes once every other day. Each one of them has the technorati ping address (http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping) in the Options->Writing->Update Services. But still, they don’t seem to “update” as far as Technorati is concerned.

The strange part? When I check each one, I see the recent incoming links, and some are in terms of hours. An example? Networks & Security, here is what they say:

=By richard dows. Last updated 143 days ago
=Tagged Advisory, Computers, Linux, Mac, Networks, Security, Unix, Windows Wireless , More »
=Technorati Rank: 60,113 (77 links from 38 sites)

Now, if you visit that site you’ll see I added an entry today.

This isn’t an isolated incidence though. This has been happening (obviously) for 143 days now. I have mailed Technorati an amazing 9 times now about this. After the sixth mail, I even stopped getting auto-responses from them. Clearly they don’t think my blogs are important enough, even though as you see, Networks & Security has a rank of 60,113. I know it’s not “huge” but still, out of 25million or so blogs they track it’s better than most.

Also, my friend Diane has encounted this problem, and wrote about it here. So is this Technorati becoming over-burdened, or just become complacent and uncaring to the very clientele they service?

I’d like to say time will tell, but clearly it already is. Get your shit together Technorati, because you will lose a lot of loyalty from bloggers to other services who DO want their business and patronage.