Blogstreet bleh
Published by Yazad Jal November 23rd, 2004 in Web WorldI don’t much care for the Blogstreet blog rankings. (Once again, not out of any spite. This blog is currently ranked # 8 out of 1,240 Indian blogs on Blogstreet)
Blogstreet relies exclusively on blogrolling.com for the ranking. Which leads to funny results. Check out the top 100 blogs. #11 stopped blogging four months back. Jivha was very prolific, but his post count since July 20, 2004 is zero. However, for sentimental or other reasons, many of us still kept his blog on our blogrolls. (I removed it from mine only recently, and I still have it on my RSS feed with a hope that it may sprout to life sometime).
My point is not to berate Jivha, but to state that any system that does not look into anomalies like this needs urgent correction. Strange to see dormancy knocking on the doors of a Top 10.
Blame Google.
Ever since Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with the Pigeon Rank thingy, every other page ranking scheme has tried to implement that in a totally simplistic and at most times illogical way.
Also, blogstreet is too skewed towards MT type blogs which makes it highly inaccurate.
I dont see how any importance can be attached to blogstreet rankings. The highest ranked blog has only 60 referrals. Why do you assume blogstreet ranks signify anything more than a blogroll count? It is a blogroll count and just that. Why do you sweat over it ?