Imagine for one second if you were told that Encyclopedia Britannica was going to remove any information older than a year; or how about if Google was to send out a press release saying that they were going to ditch anything older than six months from their index. I can just hear the howls of WTF! echoing throughout the Internet and heads would be rolling at emergency board meetings.

Well this is in effect what Technorati is apparently doing according to an email from Ian Kallen at Technorati to Zoli Erdos who first noticed that anything older than six months was missing from Technorati’s index. While Ian shrugs off some minor economization, performance fixes with a suggestion that most people won’t notice the missing data one has to really shake their heads at such a move.

Even as Duncan Riley at TechCrunch points out that most people may not care because they have already switched to using Google’s BlogSearch the fact that Technorati seems ready to cut its data throat sure doesn’t instill much confidence in the company’s desire to be the main blogging reference site.

I realize that one of the things that Technorati may have been wanting to do is to clean up its index of things like splogs and other such index pollutants, however isn’t this just a bit of over kill?.

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Conversation Tags: Technorati, BlogSearch, Zoli Erdos, Duncan Riley