Blogging Roller: Pay for Technorati?

Pay for Technorati?

I thought Technorati just stopped charging for search. Wasn't that just the other day?

Tim Bray says Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub should be charging for the invaluable service they offer to those interesting in searching and monitoring the blogosphere. Sounds reasonable, but I think a for-fee business model is going to work about as well as a no-fee business model. That is, it ain't gonna fly. Newsfeed reader software will support it, but users won't go for it. So, whats going to happen to these guys? I think the newsfeed search services are going to be bought out or pushed out of the way when the big boys (Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo) start indexing feeds and offering subscription results in feed format (this year?).

Dave Johnson in Blogging • 🕒 03:50AM Feb 28, 2005

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Comments:

I think there's room for Technorati and Feedster. But a user fee model aien't gonna fly. They just need to be a little creative. Maybe appending ads in the XML results. What's the simple math for? Trying to stop me from posting? That's OK, I asked a cow-orker for the answer ;)

Posted by Randy Charles Morin on February 28, 2005 at 06:27 PM EST #

Hi Dave, Thanks for the interest in Feedster. While clearly I can't say what we're doing, what I can say is that we're watching this issue (using Feedster of course). And, as an aside, you're doing great stuff with Roller. Damn impressive. Best Scott

Posted by Scott Johnson of Feedster on March 01, 2005 at 02:35 AM EST #