IceRocket.com Profile

What is IceRocket? IceRocket began as a blog search engine and now also searches other social networks such as Twitter, MySpace and the Web.

Class of tool: Blog Search Engine

Other blog search engines: View the definitive list.

From IceRocket: We are a real-time search engine. Started out as a blog search engine and now we offer Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc. We have around 200 million blogs in our database and we spend a lot of resources to filter out spam blogs.

Cost: Free

What makes it different? The specialized search feature, allowing users to isolate searches to a number of different social sites is unique. Search feature works very well.

Popularity: Alexa site ranking: 6,319 (worldwide traffic rank) with 2,181 sites linking in.

Who is using? Currently they have more than 200 million sites indexed, meaning that they have the database to attract significant traffic, as their worldwide traffic rank indicates (see Popularity, above).

Ease of use: It's like using Google, but with a slightly different interface.

Time to setup: They automatically catalog blogs, but if yours was missed, or your want to resubmit, you can simply submit the url.

Time to maintain: None

What you need to know: Nothing really – it’s a straight forward, smooth-working search engine.

Bottom line: IceRocket is worth visiting, and ensuring that you're listed. It's also worth trying out the search feature, especially if you want to avoid splogs and general internet results. In my review, I was impressed.