So far, I guess I have helped at least a couple people that I know of with my solution for changing from Google Blog Search back to Technorati.
There is a much easier fix now. I can’t believe I didn’t think of saving the solution as a file. Jason R Briggs has been nice enough to do this for anyone who isn’t sure about editing code and doesn’t like the switch from Technorati to Google Blog Search for the incoming links.
This fix is for WordPress 2.3. The download and instructions are on his site.
I’m sure there may be a very good reason why this change was made but I’d like to know why! Anyone know?
The change seems dumb to me, given that the replacement is so abysmally bad at finding links from anything other than my own website.
The only thing I can think is some weird political reason…
I agree with you. I don’t know why anyone would want to see their own links. I have yet to see Google show me links from other people. Nothing against Google Blog Search, but it just doesn’t give me what I want.
[...] is now an even easier fix than the one that I wrote about before, for the Incoming Links in WordPress. This is a plugin that is supposed to allow you to see the links from Technorati [...]
My guess would be that perhaps the WordPress team had made a decision that Technorati was no longer relevant and filled with nothing but splogs and blogs who game the system. I found the Google Blog Search to be annoying because it showed me my own posts instead of incoming links. Thats why I ended up going back to the technorati deal.
Maybe they should offer an option to choose which one we want to use. I’m sure a lot of people will go back to using Technorati.
Google Blog Search didn’t even show me other blogs that were linking back to mine. I would go to Technorati and see at least 3 new incoming links and look in the admin area and just see my blog’s links. Not very useful.