Open The Dialogue

Nick Bradbury is talking about how he has reverted back to using Technorati to search blogs after playing with Google's BlogSearch for awhile. For some time now, I've been recommending Technorati to most people who ask how they can find blogs on a specific topic, with the caveat that "it's not perfect, but it's what we've got" - I still stand by that, because the strange empty search for a popular site or error does pop up here and there, but it's not like it was three or four months back. In Nick's comments, Randy Charles Morin mentions IceRocket, a project that Mark Cuban is behind, and I've gotta say that it's one of the more functional engines for searching - blogs or otherwise - that I use today. Being able to exclude things, subscribe to them, and drill down with one click are definitely things that I use regularly, and would highly recommend you go check it out for those reasons.