More than a week ago, I took a look at my statistics at Technorati and discovered that I had lost over 100 fans overnight and that I no longer had any favorites. I sent a feedback message one day and another a couple of days later in response to their blog article, "My Dog Ate Your Blog". I just took another look and their problem with indexing isn't fixed and I doubt that it ever will be. I have good reasons for my doubt.

Back in July of 2007, I wrote that I was singing the Technorati blues after getting a message back from their technical support staff that they were working on the problem with fixing the viewing of favorites. It wasn't the first time I spotted a glitch. I asked what happened to the Technorati fans back in May. I'm not sure when they told me, but somewhere along the line I was told that adding favorites was capped at 200 and that they were going to fix that with their next update.

Never mind that I've been losing authority links faster than I've been gaining them for the last 3 months. Yes, I know how they work and I also know that I never gained 25 new authority links in any one month, yet I lost that many in only one month. So, not only have I lost the perceived authority of being in the top 10K, I've also lost my spot in the 100 top favorited blogs at Technorati, another perceived authority.

You know, I worked in the IT industry at one time and I also know how to program databases. I know about redundant systems and backups, including daily logs of database activity. Any database programmer worth an ounce of beans could have fixed these problems a long time ago. Apparently, Techno-Crappy doesn't have any real database programmers.