Robert Scoble outlines a few reasons why Technorati is better than Google for watching what is happening out in the blogosphere. This is true, although I really only watch who is linking to my stuff (where trackbacks won’t pick it up). But like Robert I have seen some noise:
“That said, Technorati is far from perfect. It has a bunch of noise in search results and Jeff and I are watching it in comparison to Pubsub and we're not seeing as good a result come back for just straight searches.” – Robert Scoble
What I’d like to see is the crew over there at Technorati put in some opt-in rules for searches. For example I get a lot of results for people adding me to their blogroll. I’d like to filter these out, or maybe even better mark the result as a lower priority (is that even possible in RSS?).