How Technorati works?

Last technical question before I move to other things. Does anyone knows how Technorati works? Do they process blog homepages only? Or only items in RSS feeds? Or only things “not older than …”?

I wonder because I usually observe some fluctuations in numbers of inbound blogs and inbould links. E.g. yesterday I had 100+ inbound blogs and today it’s 80+. It would be interesting to know why these things change. I tried Technorati site and weblog of David Sifry with no luck.

I guess this is a quite typical question that user has about systems that digest information: what are the criteria that are used?

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/08/08.html#a708; comments are here.

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