Your blog is their market research

September 11, 2005 10:47 PM

Ice Rocketis a blog spidering search engine that seems designed to allow users to track trends over time (mentions, say, of "pepsi blue" vs "coke zero" over the last 60 days). It's an interesting, if highly unscientific, use of bloggers writings as informal market research. No word on how many blogs are in their index, nor whether they're collecting any available demographic data on the bloggers (where such information is even available, that is).
posted by jonson (12 comments total)

Oddly enough, my nutsack has been mentioned on an average of 1.72 times per day. Come on, blogosphere, get your mind out of my trousers!
posted by jonson at 11:21 PM on September 11, 2005

This looks like BlogPulse. Also check out Blogdex.
posted by sveskemus at 11:53 PM on September 11, 2005

Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue Pepsi Blue.

Take that, you astroturfing fuckwads.
posted by spiderwire at 12:15 AM on September 12, 2005

looks kinda like my mate Leigh's site
Trendwatcher..
maybe someone needs to make a trend watcher watcher
(metatrendwatcherfilter?)
posted by zog at 2:13 AM on September 12, 2005

Yep, that ice rocket has been spidering at least my blog a few times. Anyone else nootice that Technoratis ambitious new blog topic listing is leaving out plenty of old established ones from their topics?

Local variation on the blog-word-searching theme, knuff.se for Sweden. :)
posted by dabitch at 2:16 AM on September 12, 2005

I forgot to add Blogsnow to the mix.
posted by dabitch at 2:17 AM on September 12, 2005

You're a little behind the curve, jonson.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:42 AM on September 12, 2005

I got an email from IceRocket a while ago saying "Hey, I checked out your blog, it's cool, we added it," etc., etc. I assumed it was spam, but I replied to it for whatever reason and was suprised to find out it was actually a real person sending the email, and he replied. Who knew? Think of all the free Viagra y'all have been missing.
posted by danb at 6:46 AM on September 12, 2005

It's also (partially) owned by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. You can read his initial post about icerocket from a little over a year ago here.
posted by Ufez Jones at 7:47 AM on September 12, 2005

I thought this was going to be about Suzuki and Kawasaki motorcycles. Alas.
posted by wakko at 10:02 AM on September 12, 2005

impeach

Stick a fork in 'im.
posted by jimmy76 at 2:26 PM on September 12, 2005

If anyone wants an ice rocket button, steal this one (please host on your own server)
posted by dabitch at 4:53 AM on September 13, 2005