I've been playing with Icerocket Blog Search a bit this morning, mostly because it's been a while since I last looked at it. And it's partly 'cause someone at work has asked me about their Link Tracker feature.
The link tracker doesn't appeal to me that much, mostly because of the implementation rather than the results. The results seem to be quite good. But I'd rather not past Yet Another JavaScript include on my site. However, I do like the results that Icerocket provides.
And speaking of results, I'm quite fond of their SRP (Search Results Page) layout. For example, this page shows links to my blog. There's not a lot of extra junk on the page, but it does provide some really useful detail. I especially like the default ordering by date and nice labeling of and separation of days in the results. I also find far less spam in Icerocket results than in some of the other blog search tools.
Have you been using Icerocket much? If so, what do you especially like or dislike about it?
Posted by jzawodn at September 02, 2005 09:19 AM
Dear Jeremy
What do you think about Google scholar with web2s tagging power. Dont u think its a good resource for students.
Let me know ur thoughts
Vijay
I'd imagine it was meant to be "web2's", as in "Web 2.0's" or something like that...
In the past I did not found IceRocket's search results to be that great, but I just checked and things seem to be better. And I agree on the SERPs page layout.
You might be interested to know that Technorati has put out a Blog Finder feature today. http://www.technorati.com/blogs/
In the past I did not find IceRocket's search results to be that great, but I just checked and things seem to be better. And I agree on the SERPs page layout.
You might be interested to know that Technorati has put out a Blog Finder feature today. http://www.technorati.com/blogs/
Peter: that really doesn't clarify much, does it?
I've been using Ice Rocket's blog links for awhile. I'd put it at better than average. So far they seem to be able to filter out the spam blogs and links.
Because there doesn't seem to be a clear winner yet I still use Bloglines, Feedster, Technorati, Ice Rocket, BlogPulse and PubSub LinkCount to try and get a picture of who is linking to me. I keep this list at http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/search/
Thanks for using!! Let me know if you have suggestions!!
Blake Rhodes
rhodes@icerocket.com
I've been using Icerocket for the past couple of weeks, and I've generally been pleased. It's a better experience than Technorati, which I've completely given up on for URL-based searches.
The only strange thing about Icerocket is that I don't trust its caching. I get different (more up-to-date) results if I do a shift-refresh after a search.
Yeh I've been using it for three weeks, mainly because Technorati is too unreliable.
Now I guess I'm expecting to see my last post appearing on their webpage as soon as I ping them....usually takes a week...I think i'll never understand how pinging works
These other two Additions are interesting and helpful
Blogs Trend Tool:
e.g.
http://trend.icerocket.com/trend?query1=search+engine+optimization&days=60
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Specify Trend Terms
Trend Term(s):
Display Label(s):
@Jeremy: Looks like Vijay is talking about myweb2.search.yahoo.com ... you can save pages and you can add tags.
First and foremost what does "past" mean in the context in which you've used it?
Second, in the words of Chevy Chase (Fletch I, pretending to be "G. Gordon Liddy"), "it's so easy, guys, maybe you need a refresher course."
It's somewhat amusing that in the particular sample search that you gave, two spam results (of the Viagra/Xanax kind) have cropped up.
New RSS tools comparison at :
http://vtech.canalblog.com/archives/2005/09/05/780635.html
yeah.. the group by day is a good idea.. I might have to steal that feature :)
Kevin
I like the group by date feature as well. Actually, I believe they stole it from Blogdigger; we did this months ago, and a week after we asked for feedback about our new layout, IR switched over. This seems to happen a lot.
