The debate on Technorati is an old one on this blog and perhaps by now for the regular readers a boring one. Technorati is one of the leading search engines for English language blogs. But it also has international ambitions and comes up with comparisons that seem to have very little in common with reality.Today it is Global Voices that has been put on a wrong leg as it believes Technorati statistics on what language is spoken on the internet. Japan wins, followed by English and then Chinese.
What it proves is that Technorati has a very good team in Japan that helps to register weblogs at the Technorati-server, while it does a poor job in China. To be noted you have to ping the Technorati-server. In China very few people see the need of pinging a service they have never heard off. It of course does not help the technorati-IP address is blocked in China.
Well, this might come back more often.
