IceRocket and Pluck are both making huge strides into the blog search and tagging arena by offering tagging methods for your blog posts. Check out this link on IceRocket for instructions on how you can begin tagging. Thanks to Steve Rubel with additional support from IceRocket CEO, Blake Rhodes, for bringing IceRocket tagging to light.
Additionally, Pluck has released the Pluck Shadows Beta. It is a new blog search by Pluck which allows you to tag pages that are already published via the Shadows web site or a browser toolbar you can install to tag pages. It took me a second to figure out how this all works since it is not using the conventional tagging method of actually placing tags into the code of your posts. However, this unique tagging method is easy to use and should have appeal to both the technical and non-technical blogger. TechCrunch does a wonderful profile on Shadows here.
The creation of these new products brings even more players into the ballgame when asking the question Who Will Be #1 In Blog Search? I wonder if Technorati is getting nervous yet?
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» Profile - Shadows from TechCrunch
Editor’s Note: Today is Social Bookmarking day, with profiles of Simpy and now Shadows. Simpy went out on TechCrunch today because they’ve been releasing new functionality that we really like. Shadows has only been out for a couple of week... [Read More]
Tracked on Jul 20, 2005 3:55:57 PM
» IceRocket Enters Tag Search from Austin Pauls
Other features of IceRocket seem almost identical to Technorati. For example, IceRocket's tag info page is almost identical to Technorati's tag info page. Did IceRocket just rip the code off of Technorati's site? Seriously. [Read More]
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» Profile - IceRocket from TechCrunch
Company: IceRocket (Soon to be renamed BlogScour)
Location: Dallas, Texas
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IceRocket is a blog search engine, and a damn good one, owned by Mark Cuban. In our opinion they aren’t quite ready to take on the king of blog search yet... [Read More]
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» IceRocket Blog Search Engine Acquired from Somewhat Frank
According to a recent press release Think Partnership, a Northbrook, Illinois based company that offers a number of online search and marketing services, has entered into a letter of intent to acquire the blog search engine IceRocket. IceRocket is [Read More]
Tracked on Apr 13, 2006 1:29:24 PM
I'm pretty certain Technorati is beyond nervous. Beyond the new competition, Technorati is having technical problems. Meanwhile, the sleeping giant (Google) looks like it might roll over.
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 06:05 PM
Thanks for that. Useful info.
Posted by: John (SYNTAGMA) | Thursday, July 21, 2005 at 11:40 AM