{"id":1774,"date":"2007-10-05T21:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T01:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/05\/technorati-in-a-hole-but-still-digging\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T21:34:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T01:34:20","slug":"technorati-in-a-hole-but-still-digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/05\/technorati-in-a-hole-but-still-digging\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorati: In a hole but still digging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Arrington noticed <\/a>the exact same thing I did when I read Wired’s interview<\/a> with new Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra. When asked about Techmeme, which just came out with its Top 100 “leaderboard” feature, the new Technorati honcho said it was a “great little site,”<\/em> but it was clear that he didn’t see it as much competition.<\/p>\n

As Mike notes in his post, this comes off sounding awfully high and mighty — and from a company that has surprisingly little to be high and mighty about, when you get right down to it. Technorati has been riddled with performance issues for longer than I care to think about, has launched new features that seem poorly thought out and are already being done better by others (WTF<\/a> comes to mind), and is in danger of being overshadowed by a website run by a single person, Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera.<\/p>\n

Many people have pointed out that Techmeme.com only focuses on a small number of tech blogs, while Technorati covers the waterfront of the blogosphere — and that’s true. But Google blog search already does a far better job of that, despite only having been around a fraction as long. And when it comes to blogs, tech is still a big segment, and Techmeme pretty much owns it as far as I’m concerned (although Digg.com has a chunk as well).<\/p>\n

To his credit, Jalichandra responded to Mike’s post in the comments<\/a> at TechCrunch, and said he didn’t intend to come off as belittling Techmeme in any way. So he’s clearly a good sport. But if there’s one thing the new CEO should know by now, it’s that when you’re in a hole the first thing you should do is stop digging — and his new company is still in one heck of a hole.<\/p>\n

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Mike Arrington noticed the exact same thing I did when I read Wired’s interview with new Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra. When asked about Techmeme, which just came out with its Top 100 “leaderboard” feature, the new Technorati honcho said it was a “great little site,” but it was clear that he didn’t see it as … <\/p>\n

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