I know this blog tends to “poke fun” at technorati a lot, but right now it deserves it.<\/p>\n

After being told that Technorati was playing up (see http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/technorati-tech-support-needed\/<\/a>) I thought I would check it out myself and see what it produced.<\/p>\n

Visiting the links about this blog page (obviously where my main interest lies \ud83d\ude42 ), I thought I would check out what Technorati thought about other blogs which linked here and what it described the site’s profile as.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Trying the standard search which looks at blogs linking to a site (http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/ search \/http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog?cc=xrw7n395cr<\/a>) was a total non-starter on IE. I tried this link (by clicking the link and by pasting it into the URL bar) several times, almost every time I got an odd windows error message saying “Operation Aborted” and IE returned to the about:blank page it likes so much. One time I got through, I ended up with a page which said “Sorry, no blogs link here.” Strange as at the top of the page it said “14 links from 6 blogs.” <\/p>\n

Curiousity got to me and I checked the URL in Firefox. This was even stranger in some respects. I had a few page not founds then all of a sudden a hit! The page appeared but without the “Sorry, no blogs link here” malarky. Firefox claimed that while the site still had “14 links from 6 blogs” there were actually 19 links (Sorted by freshness) and then procedes to show 18.<\/p>\n

Amazing.<\/p>\n

I tried the “\u00c2\u00bb View my profile<\/a>” link but after ten attempts (five each IE 7 and FF2.0) which only got operation aborted or blank pages, I gave up. I don’t have that much patience even looking for pure hubris.<\/p>\n

Well, if this is the face of Web 2.0, I cant wait for the bubble to burst.<\/p>\n