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As much as I avoid giving this blog a consistent content theme, who am I to argue with Technorati and its new-fangled Blog Finder directory? Right there, (far) behind the inimitable Off Wing Opinion, is PopStat as the second-most authoritative hockey blog on the World Live Web.
Man, just think: If not for the locked-out season, I might have made it to No. 1!
Of course, Blog Finder is in beta, and it’s called “beta” for a reason. Like this one. I’m sure this minor miscategorization will be tweaked out, in favor of more worthy candidates.
In the meantime, judge this blog’s hockeyworthiness for yourself.
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First, I’m amazed you were able to get past the home page on Technorati. All it does is crap out for me over and over. The beta service must be on its own server(s).
Second, where are all the hockey blogs? I know it’s a beta service, but they look like they have a long way to go.
Comment by David — 09/02/2005 @ 07:08:58 PM
I feel ya. The Cosmos search for this blog times out with the “Sorry” page probably 9 out of ten times for me.
I know they’re trying, and it’s not a huge deal for me. Still, I sometimes find myself wishing Yahoo! or Google would buy them and solve their overload problems quick.
As for the hockey blogs: Beta’s beta. You gotta start somewhere. I’m sure they’ll refine it in short order.
Comment by CT — 09/02/2005 @ 07:23:58 PM
It seems like they’ve got general blogs with lots of hockey talk - but no flat out hockey blogs because none of those have a hockey category.
Comment by David — 09/03/2005 @ 03:15:58 PM
Aha — good point. If there’s not a “proper” category or other tag-like marker on a blog that’s otherwise obviously about a certain subject, then Technorati might be blind to it. Which would limit the effectiveness of Blog Finder.
I know that here, I don’t even bother with tags; Technorati picks up the category links instead.
Comment by CT — 09/03/2005 @ 03:23:54 PM
Back in the blogspot days, I used to show up fairly high on technorati’s various searches. Since the move, not so much.
Comment by tommy — 09/06/2005 @ 09:00:15 AM
That’s surprising, because it’s been just the opposite for me, with Technorati and all search engines.
Comment by CT — 09/06/2005 @ 09:12:59 AM
[…] For more coverage on the Lightning and hockey in general, there are a couple local bloggers that can keep you up to date. The number two hockey blog, PopStat always has an opinion on the hockey goings-on, and Boltsmag follows the Lightning like a rat chases cheese. […]
Pingback by Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog » game on! — 10/05/2005 @ 01:49:17 PM
Screw Technorati with regards to Hockey Blogs
Use Hockeyblogs.org
Comment by John F — 10/05/2005 @ 02:16:55 PM