Technorati was the first, if I am remembering this correctly, search engine for blogs. They became massively popular overnight, and rightly so. I think I even praised it on this blog once or twice.

But has it now become useless? I did a search on Technorati for "cryptologic", a company a friend of mine was trying to get me to invest in. Every single link on the first page of results is spam. Blogs filled with random text, that just happen to contain the word cryptologic.

My first instinct was to report the blog as spam. Hmm.. No links for that. I can add it to my favorites, but I cannot block or otherwise delete these spam blogs.

So, on to icerocket. Spam killed Technorati.