Adios Technorati, Hola PubSub, Ice Rocket

A number of well-trafficked Web commentators have already danced on Technorati's grave, with numerous comments on these sites by readers joining in. Most focus on how slow Technorati usually is. More often than not search results have become laughable thanks to spam blogs. Technorati's new tag project which lists the most popular blogs in categories is ludicrous. It lists numerous blogs on top 10 lists that have piss-poor Alexa rankings.
The lesson to be learned from Technorati should be that searching the live Web is extremely difficult. Yahoo, MSN and Google would be there if they had credible products. Moreover, as the live Web gets more and more important, this may well be the next defining moment for search leadership. It will be interesting to see if the A list search players buy or build.

Read - So long, Technorati (Kottke)
Read - Technorati Worthless (The Jason Calanis Weblog)
Visit - PubSub, Ice Rocket