Jonathan Haber, internal communiator at Marriott, sent me a link to a search engine I’ve never heard of. IceRocket has an interesting twist. In addition to search results, the engine pulls up a thumbnail view of the page it found. “Visually oriented folks can recognize by sight the site for which they couldn?t remember the URL. Speaking as someone who often misremembers domain names but rarely ‘forgets a face,’ as it were, this has definite appeal,” reads the USA Today piece Jonathan forwarded.

The engine also offers an intriguing utility called “E-mail a Search.” Send a blank e-mail with the search term in the subject line to IceRocket and you’ll get the search results by e-mail. The concept was designed to accommodate people looking for search results when all they have access to is a PDA or cell phone. There are separate addresses for Web, news and image searches.