Our story begins yesterday when user GrowMap submitted a story about a change in how Technorati accepts content. In a rush of search geek excitement David Harry wrote up a post about it here. However, David, made a mistake and accidently interpreted the story being about TechCrunch...I reached out to him and he has since changed the post. HOWEVER, it got me thinking about TechCrunch and so i started doing some digging....take a look at this data from SEMRush:

Now my first instict was PENGUIN 2.0 but then I started to look a little more.... SearchMetrics is showing a drop in June not May.

Now of course this is in no way a complete analysis. To be complete we would need access to data that well...only TechCrunch has, but it does raise alot of concerns for them. What do you all think? Has TC been devalued or penalized by Google? Let us know what you think in the comments! oh and also, if anyone from TechCrunch is reading this, I know some folks that can help you understand all of this better. ;)