“[Whatever] Sucks!”—The Payoff
I hate to say something or someone sucks. It’s a vulgar, nasty expression. But sometimes it’s just the thing that has to be said.
Take my recent post about Technorati, for instance. Within thirty hours of my posting, Technorati showed every link to my blog that I knew existed when I wrote the post. (Yes, I admit it’s not that many, but hey, I’m still new.) Still no explanation as to how they found those linking pages after they were already several days old, or why they hadn’t been found earlier.
Perhaps it’s my imagination running away with me, but maybe, must maybe, someone at Technorati monitors what bloggers are saying about the company, found my post, and investigated the problem.
Strictly speculation.
But if a company is wise enough (and I believe this is indispensible wisdom) to monitor how bloggers are talking about it, what’s the first search it should do every morning? Well, for me it would be
“[Company_name] sucks”.
It’s by far the most common form of rant about a company.
So maybe it’s not what happened at Technorati when I kvetched about them. But it’s what I hoped might happen. And, for whatever reason, the end result is what I wanted.
And, Technorati, if you’re reading this, thanks for finding my missing links.