Charles on… anything that comes along

Over at Complete Tosh..

Technorati, the blog search engine, is searching for a new CEO… I guess it would be snide to suggest that their search will take forever, miss the obvious candidates and eventually time out with no results? Oh well.

Me-owww. But in another triumph for full RSS feeds, Neil has switched his on too, though he’s worried he’ll get lonely and nobody will drop by to comment.

So, go by there to comment. He’s got very cogent things to say about Technorati, such as

But the curious thing is that Technorati, for all its popularity, has failed to attract much warmth or admiration from the constituency it has served in its four years on the net. Its relationship with bloggers went south as the site struggled to stay up as it grew, and ultimately no amount of PR 2.0 (Sifry’s blogged mea culpas, explanations, promises) can get around something simply not working. Technorati’s technical wobbles remain a serious reason for both bloggers and businesses not to work with it in any serious way.

That’s true. Though my own experience using Technorati and Google’s Blogsearch is that the former, while flaky, at least gives you pointers to blogs run in the main part by humans. The latter could more accurately be called Google Splogsearch, since all it seems to find is a zillion blogs generated by machines skimming peoples’ content and whacking it up on a page in the hope of finding an idiot, or a robot from Google, that will come by and index it.

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• I'm with Tosh on this one: no, Google won't do VoIP for you and me (25 January 2005; score: 50.44%)
• China delayed poisoned milk investigation until after Olympics, says Economist (25 September 2008; score: 49.8%)
• Google news sources revealed (27 March 2005; score: 47.52%)