Searchme visual search engine

John Chan | Apr 23, 2008

With searches, your results usually give you the name of Web sites and a short description. If you don't really know what you are looking for, prepare to click on dozens of links before finding it. Well, Searchme, a relative newcomer to the search business, has an interesting solution. Instead of giving you text results, it provides snapshots of the pages. If you did a search for "CNET Asia", you actually see our home page in its entirety, albeit in lower resolution. You can then scroll through the results like you do when viewing albums in Apple's iPod Cover Flow interface.

When you are typing in the search box, it even gives suggestions about narrowing your search within categories. Not a particularly useful feature because, honestly, even when searching in general with no category restrictions, the results we got weren't that great. To be fair, it does take time to index the Internet, so maybe Searchme's results will get better over time. After all, it's presently only in its public beta stage. As of now, it's just really cool to use and is a refreshing alternative to the regular text searches we have all become so used to.

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