Hate to pile on Technorati as I still find it a very useful service. . . but since Jason Kottke and friends (check out the 25 trackbacks) are on the topic I cant help but also put in my 2 cents.

While most people are focused on uptime and recall . . . I’m having problem with Technorati’s search precision. Mainly that I’m getting a ton of press release spam in its results like a regular search engine or feedster. One of the main reasons using services like Factiva and Lexis Nexis can be really annoying is the fact that press releases can sometimes overwhelm insightful articles written by objective third parties. Now imagin how bad it could get when a service is openly crawling the web like Technorati.

Technorati used to have the aggregate “voice” of the bloggers but recently companies seems to gotten smart to ways to sneak into its search results via zombie blogs or blogs consisting only of company press releases. The worst offender seems to be PrintRelease. I hope Technorati figure out some way of automatically black listing “braindead blogs” from its result set. Now I’m off to checking out PubSub. . .