> Josh Hallett observed how a simple
> Technorati search of his client that
> yielded a hundred thousand+ results a
> few months ago, now yields only a
> thousand+. (Google Blog Search still
> produced 100K+.) Something fishy is
> going on there. The question is
> whether it's an aberration or not.

Hit counts are often dubious metrics. Index rebuilds, spam purges and other search engine management functions will always cause fluctuations.

As part of Technorati's cost and performance management efforts, we've been running the service with the data sets of historic data scaled back. We may bring that data back online in the future but the days of monotonically ascending hit counts are currently suspended.

best regards,
-Ian
Technorati
Ian Kallen | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 11:06 am | #

I won't tell our former client that you asked, but it's search engine optimization and search engine marketing. In a nutshell: Google.
Peter Himler | Homepage | 10.26.07 - 9:33 pm | #

Petey,
What's SEO/SEM?
Steve-o | 10.26.07 - 4:13 pm | #

Hi Peter:

It was great to catch up in Philly for dinner. Hope to see you again soon!
annie heckenberger | Homepage | 10.24.07 - 10:54 am | #

Thanks for the comments. Phil, Kevin - the converseon gang and I will organize a meet-up when you're here. Ike, you can come too. (smile)
Peter Himler | Homepage | 10.23.07 - 9:40 pm | #

Trati still has issues Ike. But then, nothing is perfect.

Peter - It's cool that you pulled such a big group. Valieria Maltoni is in the BrandingWire group we both write for.

Sorry I could not make it to Philly!
Kevin Dugan | Homepage | 10.23.07 - 1:03 pm | #

Sorry i had to miss this dinner... I'll catch up with you next time I'm in NYC, currently determined to be late January or so.
Phil Gomes | Homepage | 10.23.07 - 10:38 am | #

Yet at the same time, Technorati finds many links back to my blog that Google Blog Search misses. If you factor out internal links, GBS only finds 1/3 of the ones T'rati pulls.
Ike | Homepage | 10.22.07 - 8:29 pm | #