New search tool gets billionaire's backing | CNET News.com
New search tool gets billionaire's backing | CNET News.com: "News.com publisher CNET Networks relaunched its own metasearch site, Search.com, on Wednesday.Like previous generations of metasearch engines, IceRocket relies on some of its primary rivals, ranging from Yahoo and Ask Jeeves' Teoma to littler sites, including LookSmart's WiseNut.
Each search result provides a small thumbnail snapshot of the site it points to, which the company says will help users decide if they actually want to visit or not.
A feature still being tested enables cell phone or PDA users to send an e-mail with a search term to the site and get an e-mail back with the top five search results.
Rhodes said Cuban was an investor but declined to say how much money the Dallas entrepreneur provided.
On his Web log, Cuban said he was helping suggest features that would be useful.
'I've offered to help come up with some unique features that hopefully can allow them to separate from the pack,' Cuban wrote. 'To me, this is a unique way to 'design my own search engine.'' "
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