This is of course relevant only for poor sobs who do not have access to server logs, but for quite a while Technorati provided a list of reactions to posts. Amazingly, they did a much better job at it than the mighty Google. In fact, Google's results were useless (and still are). No wonder, Wordpress included Technorati's results into the dashboard by default. Then, in the middle of 2009, WP switched to Google (many bloggers noticed that references became thin) and Technorati removed references altogether, when they rolled a site redesign.

That is when I stopped paying attention to that little site with laughable ambitions. Discarding the only thing that you do better than Google takes some unorthodox thinking!

Not sure what made me look, but I found that references are back, to some extent. See the screencap:

Unfortunately, they cull the links, only including sites they themselves recognize, and rank. So, no chance for me to see links from Kaedrin, Bugfox, etc. Nonetheless, the result is still better than Google, which tells us what poor job Google is doing.