Blog Search Sucks - Can Anyone Save Us?

I’ve been following IceRocket for over a year now, and have written a series of posts here and other places about them. Summary: Depite the CEO Blake emailing me to tell me they are very much alive and well, I keep writing them off as dead. But perhaps I’m wrong? Blake left this comment on my blog back in April of 2007. # Blake Rhodes on April 3rd, 2007 Jim- We are spending most of our time on trying to make updates faster and getting rid of splogs. We are a... Read More »

How To Get Your Blog Listed In The Washington Post?

Earlier today I wrote a piece linking to a story in WashingtonPost.com. A few hours later Jim L. from Adify emailed me letting me know that he saw my blog link in the article. Check it out below. How? The Washington Post website uses Technorati to monitor the conversation for their content. Pretty smart. This is important because it allows non-geeks to begin to learn how to track online conversations. Let’s face it, this report says it, that us web geeks are really... Read More »

Why Has Mark Cuban Allowed IceRocket.com To Die?

So, Technorati is alive and well according to Dave Sifry, and Google Blog Search is growing too (how could it not?). But what about Icerocket.com? It appears as though they are dead. Look at this chart. Nothing, nada, zip. No movement? It appears… dead? I wrote about the top ways to fix Icerocket.com last year here. Here’s what I said then. If you want to know the current state of Icerocket.com, (Mark Cuban’s search engine), all you need to do is look here... Read More »

Isn’t It About Time To For Google To Clean Up All The Spam They Enable?

So a new report says that 75% of Blogspot.com blogs are spam. Google owns Blogger.com, which powers all Blogspot.com blogs. From MicroPersuasion.com… Google better tighten up its system or the entire Blogger platform will tank from a lack of trust. According to a new Microsoft Research study, Blogspot - the free platform tied to Blogger - is among the top doorway domains for spam. Some 74% of Blogspot blogs are used as splogs. You can view the horribly unreadable study... Read More »

How Does Google Blog Search Rank Blogs? Now We Know.

My nightly Techmeme roundup found me learning about how Google ranks blogs in its blog search engine. I always thought it worked just like Technorati defaults, which is by “most current, relevancy”. But I was wrong. According to Search Engine Roundtable… What positive factors contribute to a blog ranking well in Google Blog Search? How many RSS subscriptions there are to the blog, How often people click on a link to the post in search results, How many... Read More »