Lots of folks are saying this is the End for Technorati, since the idea of having a search engine of blogs that’s not Google when Google is now doing it is kind of silly, plus Technorati’s performance has been truly sucky for some time.
Maybe so. Technorati does have the ostensible advantage of instant access (when it’s up and responding), but, well, Google is Google.
I do expect, at some point when I have a few spare minutes, to delete the Technorati links here and modify the Google ones to use the new Google blog stuff.
I did find something … interesting, as I played with the Google Blog search. I put in my blog URL to see what came up as links to it.
Interestingly enough, there are a number of obviously commercial/spam Blogger sites that have quotes from posts of mine and links back to them, e.g., this one.
Hmmm.
Obviously they’re trying to get lots of links on bottled water for some nefarious purpose. But what does quoting my blog and linking to an entry of mine give them (aside from a touch of class)? Does the link keep it from looking like a link farm to spam hunters? Does the text make it look more legit?
It is a puzzlement. And there are several of them. Should I be worried? And, if so, what should I do about it?