Rocketinfo Inc. (www.rocketinfo.com), a leading international real-time business news search engine, announced on April 12 the release of the world's first desktop news search application, the Rocket Desktop 1.1. The free Rocket Desktop, available for BETA download from www.rocketnews.com, is a lightweight application that provides a convenient way to search for the latest news from the thousands of sources in the Rocketinfo news database.
The Rocket Desktop gives users the ability to create and save searches for up-to-the-minute news from today, the past week or the past month. Results include the article title and a brief excerpt, and articles can be viewed in their entirety and emailed or bookmarked with a single click. Results are sorted using the Rocketinfo Ranking technology to ensure end-user accuracy and relevance. A key feature of the Rocket Desktop is the ability to access content from the dynamic and comprehensive Rocketinfo current news database, which spans over 16,000 current news sources, including national and city newspapers, specialty publications, newswires, trade journals and interest- and industry-specific websites.
Rocketinfo’s Founder and CTO Rick VanWell said that the Rocket Desktop advances Rocketinfo’s leadership in developing technology that gives unparalleled access to current news, that online news consumption continues to grow, that there is a huge demand for the instant access to timely, relevant news provided by the Rocket Desktop, and that Rocketinfo will also be aggressively developing partnership opportunities based on private-label versions of this application.
