Cuban’s IceRocket adds blog search |
Loading ...I’m keeping an eye on up and coming search engine Icerocket because anything that Mark Cuban gets his hands on is at the very least interesting, and look what’s new via Search Engine Journal:
Blake Rhodes, CEO of IceRocket, notes on his blog. Hopefully by now everyone knows what a blog is, it’s a personal weblog where people can express their thoughts and views, an online diary of sorts. 2005 will be the year of the blog, mark my words, many people are just finding out about them and soon everyone will be blogging. We felt it was about time that a search engine created a section specifically for searching Blogs, so we did it.
I agree, when are MSN, Yahoo! and Google going to create blog-specific searches?
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