Difficulty of obtaining Technorati rank makes service almost worthless

Dear Technorati:

I have absolutely no idea why you removed the numbers next to each citation showing that blog's Technorati rank, i.e., the number of inbound links that you say that blog has.

For various reasons this information is invaluable and it needs to be visible in each blog's citation. Making someone click a link in order to get that number won't work, since I use those numbers to scan for Important Bloggers and to filter out splogs and blogs with almost no popularity.

Accordingly, please add that back in. There is no reason why that should be computationally expensive. Simply cache the number and compute them during your off-hours; they don't change that often. Other schemes are possible depending on how your system works, but I cannot imagine why you wouldn't show information you already have.

UPDATE: It has come to our attention that you can mouse over one of the images to get this information, so they are indeed displaying this information, they're just doing it in a highly-unusable way that doesn't work in my version of Firefox. I want to be able to immediately see that information, I don't want to have to mouse over - and use a different browser or version - in order to see that.

Bloggage · Thu, 01/05/2006 - 09:39 · · Importance: 1