The Pointlessness of Technorati Tags

I’ve always considered Technorarti Tags to be annoying clutter on pages because people are far more likely to search Google for a keyword than they are to look up a particular Technorati tag and the million slight variants of it. I’ve just noticed however, that you don’t actually need to clutter up you page with unsightly tags to get into the tag list. Take for instance the Ephox technorati tag. I don’t tag my posts, and yet my Oh Happy Day! post is the top entry.

A Google search for Ephox however, turns up all the posts in Technorati courtesy of returning Planet Ephox, plus all the official Ephox pages – far more useful for learning about the company.

Of course, now on top of the tags, we’re getting those annoying, digg this and email this links. I’m quite capable of doing that myself, stop distracting me from your actual message.