Technorati vs. Unicode

Believe it or not, the over-hyped Technorati, still doesn't support unicode queries, despite its claims to be the single best source on the state of blogging in the world.

Six month ago I wrote in this blog:

Just go and search for these three widely used words in Persian,
Arabic and Hebrew. You'll get ZERO results:
امروز
عراق
הארץ

How can Mr. Sifry's Technorati be "the authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs," when they can't even show a single result for queries in at least these three languages whose blogospheres could easily be as big as one million blogs in total?

David Sifry then replied:

Actually, it is because our parsing of farsi, Arabic, and Hebrew aren't very good right now. We're actually working on building out our search support for more languages, and these 3 are important. But it'll still be a while until things are much improved. Sorry...

Six months on, there has been no improvement. So I wonder how Technorati allows itself to say anything about blogs that use Unicode scripts.