TECHNORATI PROBLEMS: Is it just me, or has Technorati become virtually useless in the last few weeks? I used to check it almost daily to keep track of blog links to PaleoJudaica, but it's gotten more and more unreliable and in recent days I have just been getting

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every time I try to use it. Has this been happening to you too?

Perhaps it has become a victim of its own success and can no longer even begin to keep up with inquiries. A pity.

UPDATE (24 August): David Meadows e-mails to point out that word search terms still seem to work, but URLs do not. Thus if you just search for "paleojudaica" you do get all recent posts that mention this word, but not every post that has linked to the PaleoJudaica blog.