Does Size Matter?

Robert Scoble thinks so.  He argues that Bloglines beats out Technorati because it has more links. 

Now, Bloglines may indeed be better than Technorati -- I simply haven't examined it carefully enough to comment.  But you can't focus solely on quantity at the expense of quality.  All the links in the world don't matter if they're riddled with dupes and junk.  And what if one company delivers links much faster than the other?  Depending on your need, timeliness may outweigh comprehensiveness.

It's fine to debate which service is better, but I'd urge a more thorough comparison than a simple "mine is bigger than yours" argument.

Comments

[Kari Chisholm]

OK, so maybe this is just a sample of one, but the Bloglines > Technorati argument sounds completely bogus to me.

For example, searching on the highly unique word "blueoregon" gets you these results:

http://www.bloglines.com/search?r=0&q=blueoregon&submit=Search
http://www.technorati.com/search/blueoregon
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=blueoregon

I mean, it's not that I think technorati is better than bloglines, it's that it's completely different. They're doing different things. Comparing apples and screwdrivers.

(p.s. OK, so why isn't HTML enabled here?)

[Chip Griffin]

Regarding HTML in comments: no real reason to have it off, so I have enabled HTML and will keep it that way until/unless there's abuse.