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August 23, 2005

Quack, quack, quack, quack, oops

I'm writing a bit of an epic on Google and Skype at the moment, but as a break, here's a small rant.

I was just doing a Technorati search, and I got:

Sorry, we couldn't complete your search because we're experiencing a high volume of requests right now. Please try again in a minute or add this search to your watchlist to track conversation.

Oh me, oh my. Game over. This is not Google-class search. (I can't remember ever having a Google error. They're carrier class, five-nines, etc.)

Why would I ever go back to Technorati when the competition is only a click away? Capacity planning isn't such a dark art, you know. If you're planning for big-time success, pay some tribute to Uncle Larry, buy yourself a nice grid server, hire my brother to install it. It scales, trust me, even if your wallet feels a bit thin afterwards.

PS - Technorati took my $5 in the early days promising a daily watchlist email. They didn't deliver. Shame on them. Whatever they spent it on, it wasn't a scaleable architecture.

Posted by Martin Geddes at 8:03 PM
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