Search engine Yandex has decided to close the top popular blog posts. Told Anton Volnukhin, project manager for “Blog Search“, in a company blog. From the site Yandex top blog entries will be removed in December.

Volnukhin explained the decision was that the top entries, which was conceived as a mirror of the blogosphere has become a media platform. Many bloggers use a social twist, asking friends to put links to their records and thus bring them into the top.

In addition, as noted in Yandex, the rating was used to attract media attention by all, including the radicals of all stripes.

The developers’ goal of Blog Search “offered to all who wish to access the programming interface rating. With it everyone can create its own rating of popular recordings. Entries are given in raw form. Users of the software interface will have to sort them yourself.

Search for blogs and forums Yandex launch on Dec. 22, 2004 and is the largest such service in Ru.net. As of November 3 they had indexed over 11 million blogs.

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