Update: I’ve had to (temporarily) disable Snap on my site – it was giving my site search gran mal seizures when it tried to spider the site.
I finally got my invitation to Snap – among other things they have a service called Preview Anywhere ™ which, like Ask.com offers roll-over previews of the destination site.

Try it now by rolling over this link to Snap.com.

It can be configured to preview either external links only or all links.

Further customizations allow you to disallow certain links by using a special class. Conversely, you can set it to not preview any links other than those with a different special class.

There is a wordpress plugin for it, once you’ve got your invite.

I have noticed that it takes some time to get image previews for some of the more obscure links on my blog, but I imagine that will improve with time as they grow out their image database.

I wonder if I can figure out a way to track any searches initiated from the rollover? Something to think about…

Personally, I like this functionality, but let me know what you think about it on this site (or others, TechCrunch is using it) by leaving a comment…

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