Why Technorati sucks

Last year I did the Bloomsday tagbomb which simply put was the full text of the first chapter of Ulysses with every word a technorati tag. Since then it's thrown up some interesting technorati tags. Some are kind of amusing such as

i want my tea now
who let the jews out
nothing to do with running
what is the secret
gay or running

but most are not very amusing at all (for obvious reasons I'm not to give examples) but they reveal a vast underside to Technorati consisting of thousands of specially created spam blogs tagged with every possible combination of spam keywords. I knew splogs existed but had no idea just how extensive the problem is. It makes you wonder just what proportion of Technorati tracked sites are splogs and just how long Google will put up with it.

Posted by stunned to blogs at April 06, 2006 11:47 AM