Microsoft-Yahoo Story DOMINATES Techmeme
Like a lot of bloggers, I follow Techmeme to get the buzz in the blogopshere. Today, the story about Microsoft bidding to buy Yahoo is completely DOMINATING Techmeme. I think every blogger, and probably their grandmothers, are talking about this story.
To illustrate, look at this compiled screenshot of Techmeme as it is right now. The area in highlight is completely dedicated to blog coverage of this story.
I don’t believe I have seen a story take this much real estate on Techmeme since perhaps the Facebook Beacon fiasco.
A Momentary Venting By Dave
You know, it would be nice if Techmeme got its stories from more than just Technorati. Well, they probably do. But, PCMech.com is BY FAR my largest blog site and I would venture to say that it is more popular than most of the blogs that show up on Techmeme. However, Technorati, being the absolutely pathetic service that it is, can’t seem to manage to index PCMech properly.
Every time it has indexed PCMech, it is because I have contacted their support department and bitched. They then send the spiders to PCMech and they never return.
As a result (I’m guessing), PCMech never appears on Techmeme even though we are independelty covering a huge selection of the stories that make it onto Techmeme.
WebbyOnline, on the other hand, is my smallest blog. It, though, is beign indexed properly by Technorati and, therefore, appears on Techmeme.
Obligatory Linking
Now, just to illustrate my theory above, I am going to link to a few of the blog stories now on Techmeme and see if WebbyOnline appears on Techmeme. In the past, WebbyOnline has appeared on Techmeme for less popular stories even though this blog gets only a fraction of PCMech’s traffic. But, because Technorati indexes this site properly, this site gets onto Techmeme while PCMech doesn’t.
WTF.
Technorati’s spiders are – sorry – total shit. No other way to put it.
Here’s those links:
- Microsoft’s Public Pronouncement of Intent to Buy Yahoo
- You Had To See This Coming – Yeah, I agree. The writing was on the wall.
- Yahoo to "Evaluate" the Offer. Yeah, I bet, especially now that everybody has their drool pans out over the story.
- What Would MicroHoo Look Like?
UPDATE – That Didn’t Take Long!
Here is an image of WebbyOnline – showing up on Techmeme. Meanwhile, I have a front-page story on PCMech about this and it’s nowhere to be found.
Damn you Technorati!
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