Technorati Should Get Its Search Right Before Adding Any More
Is anyone else completely unimpressed with Technorati’s latest offering, “Favorites?” Yes, I know Scoble’s all jazzed about it, but to me, its a worthless feature. Why do I need another place where I can put my bookmarks? I have my iBook, my iMac, del.icio.us, this site, and I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch more. I don’t want another place to stash favorites and then forget about them. Some people might have moved their “primary” bookmark location over to Technorati if they are already on the site a lot, but I have serious doubts that anyone will do that with the odd, hopefully temporary, rule that you can only hold a max of 50 bookmarks or “favorites.”
I think I see what Technorati is going for…they want a search where entries come up and they are marked by a snazy little picture denoting that “this article is marked as a favorite by 23 people.” Isn’t an idea like that better served by partnering with a more established bookmarking site (del.icio.us), than just slaping together your own bastardized version? Maybe Technorati tried to partner first, only to be shot down. If that is the case, then they should have just scrapped the idea. As far as I’m concerned, they should be scrapping all feature ideas until I can search for links to Hell Yeah Bitch! .com on their site without getting the “We are experiencing a high traffic load.” message 75% of the time.
Update: I was doing a search on Technorati to pull a link for this article, and I found out that they have somehow managed to “lose” Hell Yeah Bitch! .com. I have one blog registered under my name and all its information is all blank. Features (especially ones we don’t need) should really come after all the basic site functions are 100% functional don’t you think? Maybe Dave Sifry wouldn’t mind stopping by to explain this…