MsFreckles is an online search service, which offers an easy way to make professional searches for the ordinary internet user. The sites uses features from Google but makes them extremely easy to use, just drop, drag and click.

The home page is good looking, even charming, and easy to use. It consists 16 boxes and each box gives you access to a search feature. Among the features at Ms Freckles you find blog search, thematic search (news, sports, shopping and more), and search within a domain in addition to regular web search.

A couple of the features merit special attention:

• Filter search lets you choose file formats from a drop-down menu.
• Specific image search lets you specify parameters for your image search, such as file type and file size.
• A search box with two drop-down menus lets you search for web pages in a specific language or from a specific country.
• Another box lets you provide an URL and search for related sites.

MsFreckles.com is Swedish of origin. It was one of the most talked about start-ups in the time just before the Internet bubble. However, the business model — a sort of community for young career women — did not generate any money. The company went bankrupt and the investors and founders left the company.

In the spring of 2005 the brothers Fredrik and Marcus Granholm started the new MsFreckles.

The brothers traveled in China in 2003 and has since that been thinking about launching a chinese internet service. This is why MsFreckles has a version in Mandarin
in addition to the English and Swedish versions.