OK, let’s look again at blog search engines. It’s been just about an hour since Seagate’s news went up.

Marketing company Think Partnership Inc. has let its letter of intent to acquire struggling blog search engine Ice Rocket expire and, says MarketingPilgrim’s Andy Beal, the company will not be moving forward with the acquisition.

Think Partnership (parent company of my old employer) has today announced a letter of intent to acquire IceRocket.com, a search engine specializing in indexing blog content.

Think Partnership will acquire the blog search engine IceRocket from Mark Cuban and IceRocket CEO Blake Rhodes.

Think Partnership will acquire the blog search engine IceRocket from billionaire NBA owner Mark Cuban.

Regulars here know that I am a huge Mark Cuban fan.

The man behind the IceRocket blog search engine wrote in to clarify how they are dealing with spam blogs, and IceRocket’s stance on Google’s Blogger hosting service.

Over the past several months I have travelled around the country, meeting with senior marketers at some of the biggest global companies on the planet.

“Markets are conversations” That phrase comes from the Cluetrain Manifesto and appears frequently in blog postings and comments.

Asking the question, “how many bloggers love me?” may be a self-esteem reducing exercise, but IceRocket thinks you should know. For IceRocketeer Mark Cuban, the more commonly used method for rating a blog’s popularity, counting the number of links to it, is lacking. A truer method is counting the number of visitors, which is why IceRocket is working out the kinks in its new linktracker feature.

Last week, it was reported that IceRocket was to become BlogScour, but it turns out that the information was false. IceRocket CEO Blake Rhodes told SearchEngineJounal the facts.

You may have noticed there’s a big space race going on to build the best blog search engine.

Looks like billionaire Mark Cuban and the folks at IceRocket have been paying attention to the Technorati debacle. They’re exchanging one odd name for anotherIceRocket will soon become BlogScour.

In one of the more unique partnerships of the search industry and blogosphere, two seperate search entities are forming a partnership which would direct the appropriate traffic (blog search or questions asked) to the correct search engine.

The Cluelesstrain has had a long run in the past five years. First, the train had to pull into the Online Practice in 1999.

Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, is backing a new Internet search engine called IceRocket. It’s mixing its own search technology with “metasearch” features.