Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Icerocket.com
I was reading Mark Cuban's blog today and stumbled across IceRocket. It is a search engine that Cuban is affiliated with.
While it borrows some features from Google, like a Product Search, Images Search and Web Search, it adds a couple of interesting features that I hadn't seen before:
1. Find a Friend: Icerocket indexes sites like Hot or Not, Face The Jury and SinglesNet and lets you search those sites based on a set of criteria like gender, age and location.
2. Quick View: You can open up the web page for any search result within the search results page itself, so you don't need to leave the results screen in order to determine if the site has what you were looking for.
3. Screenshots: All web search results have accompanying screenshots so you can get an idea of what kind of site you're looking at results for.
I'm not sure if all of these features is enough to make me switch from Google; however, they are cool to play with.
I was reading Mark Cuban's blog today and stumbled across IceRocket. It is a search engine that Cuban is affiliated with.
While it borrows some features from Google, like a Product Search, Images Search and Web Search, it adds a couple of interesting features that I hadn't seen before:
1. Find a Friend: Icerocket indexes sites like Hot or Not, Face The Jury and SinglesNet and lets you search those sites based on a set of criteria like gender, age and location.
2. Quick View: You can open up the web page for any search result within the search results page itself, so you don't need to leave the results screen in order to determine if the site has what you were looking for.
3. Screenshots: All web search results have accompanying screenshots so you can get an idea of what kind of site you're looking at results for.
I'm not sure if all of these features is enough to make me switch from Google; however, they are cool to play with.
¶ 12:45 PM 
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