Is Technorati down?
June 5th, 2007 by 
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All I can say is, WTF? I went to Technorati just now, 12:45 P.M. PST, Tuesday, June 5, 2007, and I got repeated error messages that the site cannot be found. Technorati has been plagued by performance issues. I frequently do tag searches and give up after waiting 15 or 20 seconds for a page to load, and many colleagues report similar frustrations.
Site performance is so fundamental to user experience and adoption, I cannot understand why Technorati does not get its IT house in order instead of devoting resources to graphical redesign and feature creep.
Needless to say I used Google Blog Search and Google News Search to research this post. And does Yahoo even have a blog search function? Not apparent from its home page or its extended Search Services page. Clearly, this is a market not owned by anyone, currently mastered (and I use the term loosely) by Google, but wide open for someone who can figure out the right feature set, algorithm, and “business model” without forgetting to keep the underlying IT running smoothly, and continuously.
Update: 2:38 P.M., the following appeared on the Technorati home page:
Blog Search, Google, News Search, Social Media, Technorati, yahoo Posted in Social Media | 
June 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Technorati has had their share of issues. Yesterday, in a comment on my blog and on their own blog, it was noted that it was a network equipment failure, and that the company is doing all it can to avoid its happening again.