This is a rant more than anything else, and certainly not a major news item, but I want to get it out there anyway.

For those of you who are not familiar with the major players in Blogosphere search, Technorati is perhaps the most popular blog-specific search engine out there. As of late, however, some sort of bug (it could be on my end, but I suspect it to be on there end) has prevented News. Views. Common Sense. from being updated on their site.

Especially for a small blog with very little readership, Technorati is a great way to increase hits and was referring about half my visitors in early mid August. Then, all of a sudden, they decided to stop crawling my site. Automatic pings do nothing, manual pings do nothing, five different support e-mails do nothing. I’m really starting to loose my faith in them. Something went wrong and I have had no luck getting it fixed.

On the other hand, this seems to be a fairly common problem that has occurred on a number of blogs and is Easily resolved, as can be seen here, here, and here.

I’ve sent them yet another e-mail and all I have to say is that I really hope something gets done soon.