At SES San Jose I got a chance to interview Nicole Adams from Searchme:
If you have not checked out Searchme yet give it a go. It has a slick interface with iTunes like paging. The image below shows the results for shoemoney.
Searchme was named as one of the 50 best sites of 2008 by time magazine.
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Wow, pretty impressive I like that quite a bit..results aren’t too great but I do enjoy browsing the search results with the visual view. It would be cool to have your scroll wheel scroll through the results…
Best of luck to them!
Kolby
It is cool. I like how it has different categories on the top. I did a search for my blog and it wasn’t there. Can you ask Nicole what is search me SEO rules, so that my site can be indexed by Searchme?
You can get your site indexed by submitting it here:
http://www.searchme.com/support/submit.php
Surprisingly, they’re still using keywords and descriptions to help rank content. Strange.
looks good…
Lets hope – Another google killer
A very unique viewing experience indeed. However, for countries like India, the load up speed still looks like an issue, but could also be at a high load times i guess… On a scale of 1-10, i think it very well deserves a 7
Really like the interface… I had fun browsing the results.
Only complaint is you can’t really read the image/shapshots… too blurry… if they were easy to read though… I guess you might have some copyright issues…
Actually, the more I use it… the more I see big problems with copyright issues… they are, in a way, showing a site’s content without their permission…
This can have some problems down the road… especially when all the big content sites start opting out due to loss of advertising sales… etc.
Was a good one
Btw i always love the features and iTunes make of searchme!
Meh, not a fan of visual search. Just having a screenshot of the page does not really help me much in deciding if that particular result is relevant or not.
Looks great. It’s a bit slow but it is doing a lot more than just text results so it’s impressive. Not sure if it can be used as a good research tool yet though.
Interesting concept and program. Anxious to see where it goes.
What you see is what you get.
With the increasing number of high speed connections, it only takes a second to click a link then the back button. I don’t really need to see a live preview.
This isn’t the future of search.
I like the color combination of the searchme website
My first impression to the website is very good. After all first impressions is last impression.
you remind me my schooldays because it looks like a flipping book in the school.
Pretty neat. I description below each page with the title would be nice too. If it ever got really popular, the bandwidth it uses would be ridiculous.
looks pretty slick…I like the design and all those fancy stuff but it isn’t going to replace google anytime soon
Looks like a very nice service. Going to try it out right now.
As a mac user I am pressing space to enlarge !! Scrolling left and right through the searches with the mouse wheel would be a nice addition.
I doubt it will catch on for raw info searching but for image searching and site overviews it would be a great tool.
I tried from fast and slow connections, doesn’t load good on low speed..
i love how they ripped off apple’s ui and ask.com’s idea. can’t wait for it to hit the deadpool.
Really cool interface..
Downside, you need a fast connection and a fast computer..
@Oozzl networking what good are the fancy visuals if the results aren’t any good?
bomb.
i’m not impressed…pretty stupid if you ask me.
I agree, it’s too much of a gimmick – a very nice gimmick though, but at the end of the day searching is all about function, rather than form.
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The results are not bad at all.
Searchme looks like a better and more accurate version of what the Cuil people were striving to achieve.
Wow thats a pretty impressive search engine for the visual crowd. I also never knew this site was in the top 50 by Time magazine. Of course they had Jeff Bezos from amazon.com in 1999 as person of the year, right before the dot come crash..but that’s jsut a different story
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Dang Search me looks like a fun site def going to check it out great post & video shoe
I only get a blank Page. Is it blocked in some countries? Or down?
It’s look slow here…..I’ve got limited connection here
I think it’s need fast connection
Very cool interface on Search Me, although results aren’t too complete.
Thanks Shoe
@mark the site is loading fine here…or it could be because of the huge amount of traffic Shoe sends to them
I’ve stumbled upon links to search queries on their site a few times – seems like a decent concept
however…
…having said the above, I still would never replace my normal google browsing with visual search
This would be THE ULTIMATE in porn searching… The biggest problem I have with searching for porn on google is that you never know when the page is an arbitrage/advert page or not.. By seeing a screenshot of the front page of the porn site, you know if it’s actually got real content or just adverts. There’ll either be a video in the centre or a gallery of pics. If not, you know it’s just adverts and redirecting links and you can avoid it.
I like how it looks but I don’t see a need for it other than that. I much rather get what I need and get out. No smelling the roses for me.
It seems pretty cool, once they work out all of the bugs I bet it could become quite popular…
Very cool, and glad to see we showed up, but slim results compared to Google and very blurry. Love the interface – should be great in the future.
“Biggie or smalls.” LMAO
Are you going to start posting videos from now on?
Bit of a politician’s answer from Nicole Adams right at the end there.
Wow i’ve never seen of this website until now. The interface of it looks awesome. But one thing they need to consider is they are potentially losing traffic from people who have dialup / slow connection. Other than that, for us high speed users – its great!
I’ve never heard of this but I’m glad you pointed it out. You’re right, it’s extremely nice looking. I like the way it looks and it’s pretty fast considering it loads images.
It looks really slick, but the results weren’t great. Did a search for Lady M yacht. Got a lot of stuff that didn’t relate, whereas the first page in Google had relevant info. But this is prettier.
Great looking website. I wonder how it would look with a white background.
People really like this website! In fact the design is interesting and original.
I like this site and the color scheme. In fact I don’t have any recommendations. Looks good to me.
Looks excellent to me – nothing to criticize
after playing with it for a while its pretty cool.. won me over actually. Not that I will use it for anything practical, but mad props on the implementation.
oh, i am not able to quote reply a comment.
whats the problem with Firefox here ?
Makes a good first impression but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Lets see how it works.
@meethere there’s no problem with Firefox. You’re not being able to reply to a comment because this function is not included with this template. Sure it would be great to have it back like it used to be with the old template.
well…..but too slow access
Heard about Searchme.com last year or something. It was still in alga mode therefore the only way I could have used it was via invitations. Now that it’s released to the public, let’s see if it’s going to take down google (or cuil)
Stanley
@Pyjammez:
Why don’t you make your own porn visual search then?
Might make a bit of cash!
It was fun to use it for a few mins. The only way i can see it succeeding is if they make the images smaller and allow multiple pages of search results.
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hi, if you like searchme give face search http://www.facesaerch.com/facesearch/?q=http://www.shoemoney.com/feed/ a look. here hard at work visualizing you rss feed
I think search me is cool, it is a very attractive idea. But so far in IMHO the search results are not very relevant. Besides the speed is quite slow – that is maybe because I am in China:(.
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Does anyone see a copyright infringement problem? To me it is an obvious road block. Why could someone visit your site any more when they can read the page they wanted in “preview” mode, and then click an ad on SearchMe’s site and generate revenue for them off of your content.
Nice scam. It should be called “StealMyContent”
Umm, what can I say, but WOW! This is the first possible contender that I’ve even considered setting as a default browser. I love it!
No mobile interface though…
Visual search… hm
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Wow, it’s very lucky
Looks good, but I’d rather use Google. When I search, I want to see the best results, not the graphics during the search process
Took a look at the browser and I must say, I am impressed. Very easy on the eyes, I just wish the horizontal scroll was a little more friendly. Bookmarked ;>)
Definetely the closest one to take google down.
I love how it functions, the problem is that the results are not as good as google’s, but love where it is going. Tried searching for c# role membership, not too many results, not really relevant, however, tried searching for regular household stuff – great results. I love how it highlights the search words in the text too. Definetely targeted for us though since gotto have pretty good bandwisth to enjoy. 
Very interesting program, i would definitely love to go through this. Might do very well.
The interface is excellent, m love it!
I’ve just looked at this again – I think it works well as a SEO research tool. Very nice to look at other sites and easily see where keyword appear on a page. I’ll stick to google for finding info and searchme for looking at keyword placement.
The interface is great, but the results are…not. I could see this succeeding as an alternate interface to an already successful engine. Google buy-out anyone?
Google is better then Searchme by a long shot…. Yeah they have a cool new interface idea but its too cumbersome to be useful.
wow where was this like 10 years ago I could have used such a tool then!
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Thats a sweet app,
You two look like a couple,
the interface is pretty
but nothing for efficient usage.
If you ask me Google will always be #1…. Simple, no frills search that gets the job done.
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The interface is unbelievable , they’ve done a great job designing it regardless of performance of course ..
Pretty cool. I added my site and hope they add it. Its amazing how everything is evolving. This is one great site and I love the features.
I love Searchme! It is a very useful website!
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