Comments on: Your blog is their market research

Your blog is their market research

jonson — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:47:11 -0800

Ice Rocket is 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).

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:21:53 -0800

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!

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:53:42 -0800

This looks like BlogPulse. Also check out Blogdex.

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:15:19 -0800

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.

By: zog

zog — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:13:39 -0800

looks kinda like my mate Leigh's site Trendwatcher.. maybe someone needs to make a trend watcher watcher (metatrendwatcherfilter?)

By: dabitch

dabitch — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:16:05 -0800

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. :)

By: dabitch

dabitch — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:17:08 -0800

I forgot to add Blogsnow to the mix.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:42:48 -0800

You're a little behind the curve, jonson.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:46:12 -0800

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.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:47:09 -0800

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.

By: wakko

wakko — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:02:46 -0800

I thought this was going to be about Suzuki and Kawasaki motorcycles. Alas.

By: jimmy76

jimmy76 — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:26:50 -0800

impeach Stick a fork in 'im.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:53:47 -0800

If anyone wants an ice rocket button, steal this one (please host on your own server)