I love finding new Web search tools, and when I came across Addictomatic, you could say I was hooked. Plus, anything with a retro-looking robot gets my vote!

Addictomatic works like this: you simply type in your search term, press enter, and wham! You get results from sites such as Google, Yahoo, Technorati, Ask, YouTube, Truveo, Flickr, Blinkx, Ice Rocket, Digg, Topix, Newsvine and Tweetscan; plus the top 200 or so blogs as judged by Technorati and personal blogrolls of the Addictomatic staff.

That's not all though. Once you get your search results, you can move the result boxes around on the page and delete the sources you don't want. Addictomatic also offers Newsfix, a topical directory with results from top sites/blogs (this is similar to other content aggregators). So far I like Addictomatic; they've definitely got some improvements to make (no RSS feed, and searches seem to be a bit hit or miss), but I think there's a lot of potential. Plus, did I mention the retro robot mascot?

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