Technorati Tags

Everybody else is doing it so not wanting to be left behind in the Blogosphere slowlane I've implemented the aforementioned tags. Personally, I've never used Technorati to find anything and the quick tests carried out in implementing the tagging system didn't really inspire me, just more lists of nonsensical crap, but, it is supposed to be the number one Blog search engine so who am I to argue.

Firstly, I doubt I'll add them to every post but instead carefully select them for my most informative and interesting meanderings (rarer than hen's teeth). Secondly, there will be no more than 3 tags per post (of course, I'll ignore this rule within days) as the amount of blogs I've seen that tag every single word of their post makes me scream. Thirdly, I need a cup of tea and a biscuit... back soon.

Originally I used a Greasemonkey script to add a Tag field to Blogger's post window but obviously the shine has somewhat been tarnished with the whole Firefox/Extension gambit. It's practically impossible to keep up with the critical flaws in Firefox at the moment as they seem to come with alarming regularity. Yes, they're patched quickly but the whole point of Firefox was that it didn't have these vunerabilities in the first place. Firefox's approach to updates needs to be looked at. As for Greasemonkey, that's been removed. In it's place I've just added some HTML to Blogger's post template and can use it or delete as required on a post by post basis.

Update: Hmmmm, my recent flirtation with Technorati may prove to be very brief indeed. It doesn't work. I did a bit of digging to find entire swathes of the Blogosphere complaining of the flakiness of Technorati's indexing. Blogger automatically ping their servers to inform them of a new post, I've also manually pinged them but all to no avail, it looks like my blog will die alone and unknown *sniff*. Yeah, they might crawl me eventually but what's the point? The blogosphere's interest will have moved on to a new topic.

All this means that Google will either buy Technorati or start up their own Blog search engine, it's only a matter of time. Where there's a market Google will be found.

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