Comments on: Google vs. Technorati: Who Wins In Inbound Links?

By: James - DigitalKeyToInfo

James - DigitalKeyToInfo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:17:18 +0000

I could not agree with you more. I think Technorati is much better at this than Google. I hope this is not a permanent situation.

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:33:27 +0000

I’ve noticed the same thing Tony. I think Technorati’s blog search provides more links than Google’s Blog Search and as mentioned above Yahoo is even better.

Because Yahoo is so difficult to use (no sort, etc) I stick with Technorati despite the fact technorati isn’t always the most consistant when it comes to indexing etc.

By: ryanol

ryanol — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:09:57 +0000

I don’t think it matters whether a site is legitimate or not.

It seems to me since the last pagerank update…that they have devalued visible pagerank, decreased the amount of links results that show using operators….and shrunk the index results in general.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:40:38 +0000

@ryanol — it is possible that they’re being strict with blog spam, but I don’t think that’s the case. Blogsearch is just missing a whole lot of inbound links from legitimate sites.

F’r instance, I think that Gigaom.com is a legitimate site, don’t you?

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:37:48 +0000

Wendy — its funny that way, huh? I find that Yahoo contributes almost nothing to my traffic, but it indexes way more pages than Google, and certainly keeps track of more inbound links.

By: ryanol

ryanol — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:30:56 +0000

I think that google is trying to cut down on how many inbound links that they show in addition to devaluing visible page rank (the green bar) in an effort to cut out the sales of paid links.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:06:35 +0000

Google and eMoms is cool, my traffic from them gets bigger daily. But on Google Blog Search I look like a loser:

Google links: 258
Technorati: 1,265

(PS – SOBCon in ‘08, perhaps?!)