Worker Bees Blog

Mark Cuban is mad about splogs (spam blogs), and he thinks the answer is to threaten to stop indexing Blogger-based blogs over at Ice Rocket, the blog "search tool" he owns. And yes I put that in quotes because despite much trumpeting, I find Ice Rocket even worse about capturing reliable linking data than Technorati!

Gosh, wasn't it last week that a survey came out showing that Blogger-based blogs are not only among the most numerous, but also that they get the most traffic?

I guess people keep visiting all those splogs that have completely overrun Blogger making it worthless to index? Is that the conclusion to be drawn then? If it is, then I guess blogvangelists better stop using that stupid "more people visit blogspot.com than NYTimes.com" metric they like to toss around to validate the blogosphere. Come to think of it, they should stop using that anyway, but I digress.

I know it's Cuban's M.O. to be brash. But this is just arrogant and stupid. Find another way to fix it guys. And yes, Google should be ashamed that they've done so little to improve the tool they purchased. Agreed.

But you're really not threatening Google here. You're threatening a bunch of bloggers, big and small. And they have no control over this problem.