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

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Technorati—the World’s Largest Blog Directory—is Gone
Orun Bhuiyan June 16, 2014
If you were to ask anyone who knows their way around cyberculture about the blogosphere, Technorati would undoubtedly be top-of-mind. Technorati used to be a genuinely useful and colossally large index of blogs. On May 29th, 2014, Technorati removed millions of pages from the web, deleting their entire blog directory and all associated information. What’s more interesting is that they performed this action rather stealthily, without an announcement of any kind. Technorati’s motive behind this sudden decision is presumably related to their increased interest to focus on developing their advertising network. 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.