Technorati doesn't know I exist

I've was less than impressed with Technorati when I was a blog reader and since I've become a blogger myself I've grown even more dissatisifed. The UI is less than elegant, the pages way too cluttered with text and the results way too junked up with spam blogs.

But it is Technorati, so I went and dutifully "claimed" my blog. It never showed up in search results. After posting on Dan Gillmor's Columbia talk last week, I even went and manually pinged them to let them know of the post. Well, I just went and checked and I'm nowhere to be found in the results.

Ice Rocket found me.

So did Google Blog Search.

And Blogdigger.

This is the blogosphere equivalent of the old-fashioned habit of looking yourself up when the new phone books came. As self-indulgent as it may be, it also speaks more broadly to the quality of the results.

Technorati may have the buzz and DJ Amber's favorite blogs, but that means nothing to me if it's returning lame results.