Spickr: another unfortunate name, this time it's a startpage
Continuing our ongoing coverage of interesting, useful websites with extremely unfortunate names, let's try this one on for size. Your friend sees your fancy-looking startpage and asks, "What's that cool site?" "Oh," you casually respond, "that's Spickr!" SPICKR? Did someone really name a slick, search-based startpage after an old-fashioned, patently-offensive racial slur? It turns out that, no, no they did not. The official explanation is that the name means you can "PICK" the information you want, and the "S" is for "search."
If you can get past the name, Spickr is a decent startpage. It does 1-click searches on Google, YouTube or Wikipedia, has a nice list of popular sites in the sidebar, and the ability to navigate your del.icio.us from within its interface. The site is clearly targeting iGoogle users, with a bare-bones "no widgets, no RSS" message - if that appeals to you, give it a look. Maybe send them an email, while you're at it, and suggest they come up with a better name for their product.
UPDATE: The folks at Spickr noticed this post, and the service is now called FastEagle. We've updated the URLs for this post appropriately.
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aanidaani said 2:48PM on 6-16-2008
"Spickr provides a faster, smarter and more reliable way to navigate the Internet by bringing together the most popular web destinations, useful online services and a search megatool under one roof, while also enabling you to browse around within a slick interface." -- Don't we already have something like this? It's called Firefox.
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Rocketboy said 2:38PM on 6-16-2008
Yes, but Spickr will also do your yardwork for you...
MDW said 4:12PM on 6-16-2008
Agree. This is pretty worthless - everything available here is available through the Firefox search box.
Lin Xi said 2:59PM on 6-16-2008
Looks like they changed it to fasteagle....
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Fluffy Llama said 7:24AM on 6-17-2008
Got to laugh at the update. :P
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Todd said 2:32PM on 6-17-2008
Political correctness run amok!
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chris calchi said 2:33PM on 6-17-2008
lol they already changed it to fasteagle.com
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