in real time search . based in dallas texas it launched in 2004 hoping to market itself solely through word of mouth . 1 icerocket is backed by mark cuban and headquartered in dallas texas . the company has received angel funding from mr. cuban . contents 1 history and growth 2 service 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history and growth edit icerocket launched in 2004 . 2 the search engine originally launched with features designed to make web searches on a pda much easier for instance allowing users to email a query to the engine and receive their results back in response . 2 icerocket had an early licensing deal with gofish.com 3 in august 2011 it was announced that icerocket had been acquired by the meltwater group . 4 service edit icerocket is generally for blog searches but has expanded into searching the popular social networking websites twitter and facebook as well as allowing searching of news and the world wide web . icerocket s big buzz feature allows users to search blogs tweets news images etc. all from one page . the icerocket site is a free resource for people looking to monitor their brand it is ad supported . icerocket has an api that it licenses to social media monitoring firms as well as pr agencies . see also edit bloglines blogscope technorati references edit newcomb kevin august 6 2004 . icerocket ready for liftoff . clickz.com . a b http www.engadget.com 2004 08 02 new search engine icerocket com http www.siliconbeat.com entries 2005 01 31 gofish teams with icerocket.html rao leena august 4 2011 . meltwater acquires mark cuban backed realtime search engine icerocket . techcrunch . external links edit icerocket website this article about a search engine website is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title icerocket & oldid 707224787 categories blog search enginessearch engine website stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 27 february 2016 at 16 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view