How Authoritative is Technorati’s Authority Rating?

So with a new title out (MATT AND KHYM) and DAMON AND HUNTER up for a GayVN award, I thought I should head over to technorati and program some new blog mention searches as feeds. (Another aspect of the always endearing Media Whore/Trafic Whore part of being an independent filmmaker.)

While I’m doing a few test searches to see what’s going to give me good results without overwelming me I notice that now there’s a drop down box. I can ask to see results from blogs with “a lot of authority”, “some authority”, “a little authority”, or “any authority”. It’s certainly interesting to search Comstock Films with varying levels of authority and see who Technorati holds in high esteem.

One blog utterly absent from any of these searches is Violet Blue/TinyNibbles. Considering the phrases I’m searching for (ie things I know Violet has written about recently,) the result make me more inclined to question Technorati’s authority than to question Violet’s.

I’m sure it’s just a bug, just an algorithym tweak or two and the good folks at Technorati will have it sorted in no time. Right?

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