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Blake Rhodes, the founder of IceRocket dropped me a nice note after my post last week about Mark Cuban relaunching IceRocket. He invited me to look at their features in greater depth, and post some thoughts.

Today, I took the opportunity to take a look through the site for a little while. I had a longer review written up, but my Firefox browser crashed and it got wiped out, so this will be a short review. We’ll post a longer one on our Search Engine Map at a later date.

Here’s my quick notes on IceRocket:

• Quick results, and while generally relevant overall, I found lots of links to 404’s.
• Standard Tabs - very googlesque - plus a couple that are original, such as tabs for Blogs, Multimedia, Phone Pics, and ‘Find a Friend’.
• ‘Find a Friend’ is cheesy. It pings mingles.com, and facethejury.com. I’m aware that there’s a big social networking market online, but to me it just looks cheesy as a tab in a search engine. I suppose that having one resource to crawl all the networks is probably helpful, but this seems out of place.
• Phone Pics is a neat idea.