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According to CNET, Mark Cuban, Web persona extraordinaire, who also maintains how own blog at blogmaverick has apparently tired of the search engines not giving him good, relevant, immediate results.

So, he’s going to try to do to IceRocket what he did to the Dallas Mavericks. He’s going to rebuild it, and compete with the major search engines for the title!

Of course, IceRocket won’t be head-on targetting the same market as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and others. It’s going to be concerned with Blog postings.

Cuban believes, and rightly so, that there is a solid market for a blog search engine. An engine which scours the web for all the latest postings, and delivers them quickly to users.

He’s renaming IceRocket “BlogScour.” The article indicates that it will be similar to Technorati and PubSub.

Good idea. But why aren’t Google, Yahoo, and MSN already doing it? Why doesn’t Google have a ‘blog’ tab, just as they do for Images, News and the like?

Perhaps because meaningful blog content is already in the main index? Perhaps because they don’t have a way to keep that content in the main interface, and also include it under its own tab?

Interesting note I just saw - Jason Calanis’s firm Weblog Inc. is earning $2,335.00 / day from Google adsense banners. ( !! )

Based on growth rates, and I quote:

January we did $580 a day on average.
March was a $737 a day average.
May was a $1,585.57 average.

Calanis expects to hit a rate of $5,000 / day by the end of the year. This would mean about 1.8M o f adsense revenue. But I’m sure he would want to keep that growing.

He mentions that he has over 100 bloggers and 9 staff maintaining all the blogs that Weblogs Inc owns - therefore, they Adsense money is not covering expenses yet, but it’s definitely making a dent!

I don’t know if anyone makes more from Adsense. I’m sure quite a few organizations do, but this is an impressive stat to be sure.

Good luck on $5,000, and then on $405,000 if he can keep tripling his growth every 3 months for the next year!