As I reported 16 May, Technorati is hitting some complexity issues. Tag displays are not being updated immediately: especially in the North American morning, when most posts are created. But other, not so obvious things are being stalled. I mentioned in the May 16 piece that Get Real's Technorati rank had stalled for what seemed like weeks:

Even more interesting: Get Real has been rapidly rising in the Technorati rankings, growing from around 8000 around the turn of the year to a recent high of 4,017 or so. We had been stalled for weeks, which seemed odd. So I looked, and in just that morning, since I had reported the bug and received the message, Get real had climbed like 600 increments in Technorati ranking, up to 3,416!

I also noted this morning that we are stalled again: Get Real has not moved up (or down) from 3,416 since last Thursday. I am happy to see that Get Real is the 3,416th most linked to blog, but I wonder about the stall: shouldn't these rankings be constantly moving up or down, based on new links being created? So, the question is, is there something going on at Technorati, where they have to go over and kick a server? Are they so backlogged with queued analysis tasks that things artificially stall? Did they run an update on Get Real alone, or the entire blogosphere? What's the story?

So I have been going to Technorati every day since 16 May, and the number didn't budge, even though I have been seeing all sorts of new people linking to Get Real stories, getting new trackbacks, etc. This morning, 20 May, Get Real has edged up to 3,259, 157 steps on the Technorati ladder, all at once.

It looks like -- at least for Get Real -- we are only seeing updates of these pages once every three or four daysweek, maybe on Thursdays?

[tags: Technorati, search, blogging]