IceRocket.com - a new type of search

There's a new search engine called IceRocket.com and it has a search function that works great through e-mail. This is especially true if you have a PDA. You simply e-mail search@icerocket.com with the search terms you're looking for and it e-mails you back the results. It's a nice way to handle it figuring how clumsy it can be to do a search with a PDA. Whether you're connected or syncing, it looks like a good way to deal with searching. This can also be done with news@ or pics@ for news items or pictures.

It doesn't seem like such a big deal and it's so simple. I wonder why this hasn't been done before. It might have to do with how the search results come back and how many of the results you want in an e-mail. It doesn't say what search is powering it, but it could be some kind of meta-search engine. The one thing I hate about every new search that comes online now all look like the Google interface or something similar. This one is no different. What I do like about IceRocket.com is the results page. It gives you thumbnails of the websites it found and does so pretty quickly.

I just found out some information from their website:
" IceRocket uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including WiseNut, Yahoo, MSN, Teoma, Altavista, Alltheweb, Lycos, and many more. " Although the search is nothing really new as far as results go, it does have the e-mail feature and the thumbnails which are a small plus over the regular search engines. No ads too.

One other thing I like is the news search. It doesn't give you a paragraph but just links which makes it easier to go through the items more quickly.

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