MCP Profiles & Directory.. Where did they go??

Just yesterday , I was trying to look up some one on the MCP directory (http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/directory/default.mspx)

and noticed that the link no longer works . Searched around the MCP landing page and still could not find the directory.

Another feature that was also missing was the MCP Profiles page that was rolled out in early 2008  and gave the ability for MCP's to have a community profile like MVP's .

( link to the blog post from Georgeo announcing it http://blogs.msdn.com/mcp/archive/2007/10/18/mcp-2008-recognition-respect-and-reward.aspx)

Did any one else notice this? Did they get scrapped? Haven't seen any official announcement to this effect though.

If any one knows where they currently exist, drop me an email / a comment

Update 02/12/2009

I got an answer from Sarah Grant at Microsoft .Reproduced below

"Yes, the reason you cannot update your profile is that we found very few people used it and was not making the impact in the community we wished.  It was announced that it would retire in December - and it did"