Rocketinfo: A Multifaceted Online News and Blog Search Tool

This sounds like an interesting tool. I might give it a try a little later. I did try Blinkx yesterday for a little while, but I think it was the culprit in some Internet connectivity issues I had yesterday. Regardless whether it is Blinkx (which when I was trying it I did think it was extremely cool and could be very powerful), Lookout, X1 or this tool the market is reacting to a demand from both info junkies like me and everyday users to help them find “stuff”. Hard drives and e-mail boxes are crammed with information we've collected over time. Then there's all the information online, which one can be pretty sure not all of it has been indexed by search engines.

With both Apple and Microsoft planning “deep search” desktop tools in the next releases of their respective OSes, and Google rumoured to be planning the same, I think info junkies and searchers are going to have a wide variety of choices soon. That should spawn a new wave of innovation in this sector. I'm looking forward to it.

A Multifaceted Online News and Blog Search Tool

Rocketinfo Desktop is a powerful news search engine with a lot of additional goodies designed for news junkies and online researchers alike.

The program is designed to help users get to news that interests them quickly, by either keyword searching or browsing. Rocketinfo searches more than 10,000 sources of online news and categorizes each story by subject matter.

Like other online news services, Rocketinfo draws from a wide range of sources — currently more than 9,000 news sources and 45,000 blogs. It also includes information from books, market research, white papers, and corporate information, as well as allowing users to include RSS news feeds.