Technorati Quietly Killed Its Once Authoritative Blog Ranking System in May (opens in new tab)

I used to use Technorati occasionally. For a long time (at least a couple of years), the results of its ranking system have seemed arbitrary and unhelpful, with little relationship to other metrics of site authority.

Joins the club of Netscape, AOL and Yahoo! Search

I thought it died years ago - had no idea that it was still a live service.

Google Blog search killed it.