Being “Evil” with the Technorati bug thus making more money
Aug 4th, 2007 by Steve McGrath
On Technorati right at the time of this post: It’s usually around 8100
Let’s be evil, shall we
I will go in a review service. After updating my rank, I got one more star(my normal is 4) . Noticed in the green circle that it is now 1.
You will see that I could ask $100(red) instead of $80(blue) because of that bug.
Conclusion
There is a lessons in here. An advertiser that do business with a service that use this rank, may end up paying more today because of that simple bug. Today, it’s Technorati but tomorrow is could be Alexa, Google PageRank …. Anyway, most services use more than one ranking and that will lessen the impact of such a bug. Too bad for Technorati that it happens on a weekend.
Now, I just need to wait for them to fix it to update it again and get more readers to get there feed from Bloglines too. I don’t like to see just 1 star all alone. 
She needs more friends!
In the end, I did not change my price. Hey! I’m not that evil. 
Edit: I’m back at 7995 now.
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Glad you didn’t change it.
At first I thought you did and I was thinking, “That’s not evil, that’s unethical!”
Shine on,
Aaron
At least, you have read my post unlike some that concluded otherwise.
Yeah, I saw John’s post first and had concluded that, until I came here and read your post in full. Good thing I did.
Shine on,
Aaron
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