iResearch Reporter is a search-engine that returns “artificially compiled text summaries” of the top 50-100 relevant URLs (from Google). The user interface is same as any basic search engine, with results being returned (within a minute or so) as a 3-tiered search summary that includes:

- a selection of most valuable links

- a list of key themes

- a concise & comprehensive overview

It sounds kinda lame until you see it in action and read through the resulting text compilation document relating to your search term. I ran a couple of search terms (encopresis and attachment) and was astonished at the range of resources returned, with links intact. iResearch Reporter is the first public project of Power Text Solutions, a commercial text-mining company who specialize in automating “high-level information analysis tasks”. Their other public project “NewsFeed Researcher” applies the same text-mining technology to RSS feeds. You can read about the history of iResearch Reporter here, which will also lead you to other projects that Power Text Solutions have running. It is definitely worth a play.

In their own words:

iResearch Reporter is the first free-for-all online system that offers a new experience to web users - sophisticated analysis and post-processing of web search results is now available to all web surfers allowing them to get an expert quality original research within a minute or two, and without any special training. The system is smart enough to guess what a user’s information need is, omitting the necessity for any complicated user options typical for other “advanced” search systems. You can use it just like you use the SE standard search.