Title: Technorati—the World's Largest Blog Directory—is Gone - Business 2 Community
Headings: Technorati—the World’s Largest Blog Directory—is Gone
Technorati—the World’s Largest Blog Directory—is Gone
Author: Orun Bhuiyan

Content: As someone with design, programming and statistical skills, I frequently wrote scripts that scraped information from Technorati in an effort to analyze and visualize trends in content. Last week I visited my favorite directory to find that it was a very different site from the one I had come to know and respect. It was a downright surreal sensation. Like visiting New York City and discovering that the Statue of Liberty had been removed. Even more curious was the fact that no major web publications have covered Technorati’s abrupt transformation. I rummaged the Internet for signs that I wasn’t the only one seeing this sudden disappearance of millions of pages and hardly found any reputable sources covering it. Perhaps no one noticed? Over the past decade Technorati had become a staple on the web. Unlike other directories it focused on content, rating and sorting blogs on a 1000 point scale using its “Technorati Authority” algorithm. For many bloggers, hitting the Technorati top 100 was an ambitious dream—and those who realized that dream gained celebrity status on the web.