This has to be a bit strange. It looks like IceRocket is banning blogs from their search engine. Blogs like kbcafe.
KBCafe’s RSS blog is reasonably well cited (according to both PubSub and BlogPulse – Technorati was taking a break when I ran the query) and Mark Cuban isn’t doing himself any favours by doing things like this. Can you believe I actually hesitated about posting on this due to the negative image I got of IceRocket from this thread?
There has to be more of a story here. I can’t imagine IceRocket would ban someone just because the criticized an investor. For a blog search engine this would be pretty short sighted.
The major problem is that since IceRocket doesn’t have a blog there’s no way we could find out the other side of the story. I hope Blake Rhodes responds in the comments.
Update:
This appears to be due to the fact that kbcafe was republishing content while including ads. When it comes down to it Icerocket has no obligation to carry kbcafe.
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August 20, 2005 at 11:04 am
My bet is Blake has already called you to discuss. Looking forward to updates on this.
August 20, 2005 at 11:30 am
Nope.. hasn’t called me unless he has the wrong number :)
August 20, 2005 at 11:50 am
I was checking out my links on talkdigger and I was surprised to see nothing come up for Icerocket when I know I had links earlier.
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/8/19/1153729.html
I think the system may be down
August 20, 2005 at 12:16 pm
A few things.
1. Kevin, you are welcome to give me a call and I will explain the situation involving KbCafe. My cell phone # is 214-714-1440, feel free to call me anytime.
2. There has been a problem with TalkDigger over the past week, I think we accidentally blocked an IP or something, we will resolve this shortly.
3. We have been adding hardware this week so if you have seen issues with updates or links, this is most likely the reason and things should be almost back to normal.
Blake Rhodes
IceRocket.com