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I was planning on writing one final blog post announcing my Technorati milestone of getting my blog into the top 25,000 blogs of all time, but I decided to change it to a negative post after I have finally been fed up with Technorati.
Technorati has always been attacked by spam blogs, but only recently has it been overrun with them. It started when the pharmaceutical companies started their Technorati Favorites spam campaign. Technorati and their staff didn’t seem to do anything about it, so as you can guess, the spammers evolved their techniques into a more hostile spamming campaign. Keyword spammers seem to have also taken siege, and I have not heard about any new features coming out. Even the new versions of Wordpress have switched from utilizing Technorati reactions over to using Google Blogsearch listings.
Unless something changes drastically, I am done with Technorati. By the time I actually get into the top 100 blogs of all time, it will be so overrun with spam that it will not even mean anything. Now is the perfect time for a flawless competitor to launch, and I hope one does.
Update: Looks like the spammers have accomplished their mission, they are now ranking #1 for the most profitable search term on the planet.
