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Why did you answer as you did above?
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| Seem broad enough in their service approach to pick up macro trends with enough qualitative content to make the information meaningful. |
| Hard to know if I can trust the rankings |
| It's positive |
| Because they all offer a similar, good, service |
| The results are not entirely accurate or reliable. |
| Because Technorati is inadequate, cryptic, confusing and exclusionary. |
| No service catches everything. |
| None of these services analyzes what is being said with any depth. |
| technorati has some very helpful developments coming out next month to help monitor blogs. |
| Have not used a blog service |
| N.A. |
| NO NEED FOR THEIR SERVICE AS IT JUST ADDS TO ROA |
| We eventually found it more efficient and cost effective to monitor internally, and the quantity and quality of the information we received was greater via our internal effort as well. |
| lack of ability to moniter writer sentiment |
| because I find there's alot that slips through the cracks, but I find Technorati/PubSub acceptable for cost and time efficiency |
| Still requires a lot of footwork from the person doing the tracking. |
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| anything to help wade through the tons of info is "good" |
| Technorati suffers from frequent service issues and has fallen prey to spam blogs. |
| It's a bit complicated. It's not quite fine-tuned, but I can't quite grasp what and how I would tweak the monitoring service. |
| I've never worked with one. |
| Difficult to understand the real positive effect of such an analysis |
| The intelligence is very good, but most of the tools are overpriced so out of the range for smaller businesses. If the tools were less pricey businesses would begin using them more. |
| Not enough experience for this services. |
| it's an evolving science. the providers have (a) yet to crack the code on member-based blog communities, filter out all spam, etc. |
| Didn't give me the depth of information that I needed |
| For the state of the art, they do well but as metrics become more sophisticated, i would anticipate they are just at the beginning of the curve. |
| No filtering or rating - hard to source out the solid blogs from the fluff and ranters |
| n/a |
| the universe of blogs is so wide, it is questionable how wide the service can really sweep. |
| Most services seem altogether altruistic in nature of reporting...in other words more concerned with the collective reporting of blogs than the content being reported. |
| Have not used a service |
| We don't use a service. |
| Technorati provides a more detailed info pack on blog sectors |
| Too many spam blogs |
| You still have to dig through too much unuseful information. |
| Coz that's what I think is a fair answer |
| Because I don't think it's fair or poor and I have no idea if it's excellent |
| I don't get uk results, mainly USA results |
| Seems good to me |
| We are investigating begining some blog efforts selectively for new product awareness |
| We've never used a blog monitoring service |
| Great to find folks who are linking to us |
| N/A |
| Any search engine gives you the haystack. To find the needle you have to look and look and look and look ... maybe Godin's "Squidoo" will provide meaning to searches, maybe not. |
| Technorati acts like a search engine. Gives you high level data, like how many entries mention your product/site/service but not much else |
| Need more education on blog monitoring |
| I'm a blogger. I know what I post. I know what shows up. |
| My searches are very narrow/specific, so not a lot comes up. Therefore, I can't really judge the effectiveness to date. |
| accident |
| Enough relevant hits to justify weeding through |
| n/a |