Wordpress 2.3 - Incoming Links

I upgraded Splat from Wordpress 2.1 to 2.3. It is pretty much the same, but the draft and scheduled post management is better. There might be other things, but I have not yet explored it a bit more. One thing that I noticed had changed was the 'Incoming Links' on the Dashboard.

Earlier, it was powered by Google Blog Search. The patch seems to have been applied somewhere around end of July 2007.

Here are some related links.

• Alisha has come up with a fix for this to switch it back to Technorati.
• It did have a nominal discussion on the Wordpress.org boards.
• Additionally, Lorelle wrote about the uses of 'Incoming Links'.

Any case, any thought on this silent move by Wordpress.org?