Didn’t they mention a few months ago that they only wanted to capture 1% of the search market share?

the bookmarks toolbar works flawlessly for me (icon only; no desc.). no need for a fancy view of the sites i frequent the most. a single click in the bookmarks toolbar takes me directly to where i want to go.

It’s fun, but not terribly useful. I can see how mobiles and other devices would have a problem with this.

This could be done better with something like a browser component, what used to be activeX or even silverlight with .NET.

The reason being is that you could embed IE or GTKMozembed into the scrolling page frames. That way as you scroll through the pages, you would be able to browse them as if they were actual mini browsers

If somebody implemented a real browser into the frames so you could have embedded browsers in each page as the page snapped to the middle and got focus it would instantly eclipse searchme and their 45 million dollar budget.

I just got the latest MSDN discs in the mail and I think I could do it with silverlight. NM that I have been doing flex these past months.

You can definitely go that one step further though and make the pages function with a real embedded browser if you’re going to waste resources and CPU cycles anyway. You should go all the way.

This is a bit pants. I think the web directory thing was done a while back by a company, I think is called Yahoo. It was good at the time but a bit old now.

Looks pretty tho

SearchMe style interface for Google with the Google API and AIR.

Just like destroy flickr. That would be the ultimate, because then you would have the awesome inteface AND google. I have been meaning to do an AIR app to sell for a while. I think I’m going to do it. It won’t have an embedded browser, but it also won’t take more than 4-5 days to code, IE destroy flickr AIR app.

Thanks for the idea SearchMe! Awesome. I would have never thought of this myself.

“VP of Research Mike Mathieson, who joined the company three weeks ago from Yahoo, where he was the director of engineering for web relevance.”

haha ironic

@5, if anybody wants to make one for Yahoo or Live
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome.....web-photo/

You can cache photos of the results of the Google search API on the fly, to emulate the behavior, gnome-web-photo runs on Linux and uses GTKMozembed to render the HTML. I used it to create web page thumbnails in the past and it’s awesome. JIT the webpage images out to serve to your flex app, then the next search for the same term they are already rendered with a URL for flex.
Just don’t make one for Google. I call dibbs on it. Saying you have an AIR app is so impressive now that you can’t go without one.

For the funding, expect seaching at least to be as innovative as PicLens. Ironically, it says it is one of the search engines try to index the entire web but yet the interface just shows a fraction of results of a typical search engine. The original concept of using CoverFlow is apparently flawed.

SearchMe will go far if it adopt and innovate upon the search capability and interface of PicLens because not only searching is fun and additive in PicLens, it exudes the ‘WOW’ factor. The interface in PicLens seems like CoverFlow on steroid. In addition, PicLens represents future interface of multimedia search that felt and look like it’s ready for Microsoft Surface technology, a differential advantage.

I’d love if you could create stacks from an API… I’d like to route recent delicious bookmarks through it, or create a wordpress plugin to create a stack at the bottom of my blogposts with all the links referenced.

The multimedia effects are interesting for those with powerful computers - however, the organic SERPs are not as relevant as the Big 3.

Are they using their own algorithms and databases?

A better idea would be to become a meta search, offering Google and Yahoo results.

I dont like it. The dark background exposes the dust on my monitor.

Something new search I will only write you back after using for some time..

jay-go to the settings and change them from “night” to “day”.

I like the updates.

The video is YouTube-only. It isn’t using the YouTube embedded player - is YouTube allowing this now for search engines?

Randy Adams, grab the LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) software from the links that are highlighted at the bottom of the page cited for your search engine development. There is Matlab , C and C++ versions of LDA available. The original paper for the LDA algorithm which was published in the Journal of Machine Learning is also available for download (PDF) from here.

A question. Do you do multimedia content search & retrieval or perhaps you’re intending to do so at some stage if it is something that you don’t do at this stage? If your answer is yes, then I can point you out to resources that may be very useful to your product development.

Hi Michael Arrington,

I just submitted a comment that went straight to your spamfolder, ie, Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Cheers.

I typed ’shams’ and got my site as the first search.

Can SearchMe help Yahoo by launching SearchNewCEO.com for them?

SearchMe has interesting issues, like the preview of each website of the search results. Although it still seems too heavy and a bit slow. If the SearchMe team could improve these details, the product certainly will be better.

Nice job SearchMe, but I think http://www.awesomeandhot.com gives better search results for certain video queries….

what do you have different from yahoo and google image/video searc?

This just screams fad. When I search, I want results fast and I want them relevant. These guys fail at the speed department. Their search is slow and the amount of moving around to find what you want is incredible. Takes you 20 sec to see 10 searches. That’s just unacceptable. Their results are also pretty crappy which is a HUGE thing.

All in all, very unimpressive. These guys won’t capture 1% of search. Not even 0.1%. But that’s not even the point. All these guys fail at the basic search engine marketing math. Guys who get 1% of Google’s traffic, for example, think that they can earn 1% of Google’s revenues. NOT SO! Google relies on its scale to extract better revenues. Someone who has 1% of Google volume can’t expect to earn 1% of of their revenue. It just won’t happen.

Search has become a brand business today. People can’t tell quality differences between Yahoo and Google anymore so it all comes down to branding.

So, after $44M (WOW!) SearchMe will find itself in a deadpool at some point.

You may want to check out SpaceTime at http://www.spacetime.com. This amazing browser already features the ability to create visual stacks of Google Web Pages, Yahoo! Web Pages, Google Images, Yahoo! Images, Flickr Photos, eBay product Search results, Amazon Products, YouTube Videos and RSS Feeds. All of your visual search results are displayed in visual stacks in a beautiful 3D Space. You can save a collection of visual stacks by “Saving a Space”. You can share Spaces by emailing them to people. As the originator of Visual Search or what’s called 3D Search it seams like everyone is playing catch-up to what SpaceTime has invented and is patent pending.

if your parents like to see a site before they click on it can’t they just download the Cooliris Firefox add-on?

I wonder when searchme will add vertical search markets and have ads all over the place? Is this going to turn into another mini yahoo?

searchgov said…
what do you have different from yahoo and google image/video search?

Yahoo & Google image/video search are not yet content-search capability. They still rely on text-annotation/meta-tags/keywords that describe the item. Content search , is you can query a sample image/video-segment and the system retrieves from the database images/videos that are similar to the target query. I believe that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others are developing content search. The techniques used are largely from the domain of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Digital Signal Processing & Image Processing.

The technology is still in its infancy, but there have been numerous commercial applications already developed for automated clinical decision support system (CDSS) and deployed in hospitals & clinics. Eg, when a patient is admitted to hospital (perhaps an emergency case and very critical) and an MRI scan is required to be taken immediately, sometimes the physician on duty is not an expertise in interpreting medical images, since the expert specialist only works during the day (not available at night shift). The hospital either call the specialist at 3 am at his home in the morning to wake him up & request to come to the hospital, since the physician on duty doesn’t fully understand of what’s being revealed in the patient’s MRI. Hospitals that do have image retrieval CDSS , usually run the new MRI scan against their CDSS database to retrieve, say the 10 most similar images to the patient’s MRI. The physician on duty, then browse each of the 10 records (ie, stored medical records with MRI images of previous patients) and try to see what sort of treatments that these similar cases (ie, similar MRI) had been prescribed by those experts/specialists who diagnosed those patients. This narrows down the choices of the inexperience physician on duty, if the situation is quite critical for the patient which might lead to death if there is a longer delay when the physician him/herself spends an hour or more in the hospital’s medical library searching thru the books/periodicals/journals, etc… of a treatment/diagnosis for similar cases (similar MRI) that had been documented in the past. An automated image content retrieval CDSS is faster, than digging out info in the library.

This is already happening today in hospitals & clinics and the technology is going to get better & better over time.

I like the visual look of SpaceTime. Does SpaceTime have a search capability or just visual display only? If you do have a search capability, can you tell us what are the percentages (retrieval capability) for SpaceTime’s recall & precision ?

This looks like Tafiti (http://www.tafiti.com) + Coverflow.

Tafiti had labeled stacks, a carousel, and drag+drop results to shelf, and simple sharing at launch, and later added live messenger integration.

I’d argue the value is probably higher for non-web page results - images, video, etc., where it would play to strengths of coverflow.

btw- source for Tafiti can be used under the MS-PL, so you could in theory use the IP to build your own SearchMe (http://www.codeplex.com/wlquickapps)

SearchMe, Vizible, SpaceTime…all really a waste of time. Totally agree that this is a UI looking for a solution. All will absolutely, positively be deadpooled by end of 2009.

Wow that is just cool. I am bout to put that on my site as soon as im done typing this.

Yeah i think that searchme just too flashy all that is not needed. just give it to me straight.

This is the first search engine I’ve seen that makes me want to use it rather than Google. The thing that’s so cool about it is that I can see at a glance what a site looks like before I go there, thus making my searching faster. The relevance and ranking is not up to par compared to the market leader, but I’m confident they can continue to refine their queries.

If I were a VC, I’d be all over this. SearchMe is likely to have a huge future (either as a solid standalone or as a buyout opportunity).

I just wanted to follow up with what someone wrote regarding SpaceTime. Yes, you can search Google, Yahoo!, Images, YouTube, eBay Products, RSS and Amazon in 3D in addition to simply dispaly your favorite web pages in what we call 3D Tabbed Browsing which are like the tabs on your normal browser except now they are displayed in a stunning 3D Interface. If you are interested in seeing the differences between SpaceTime and Searchme, you can check out the Wall Street Journal Article where SpaceTime received a glowing review: http://online.wsj.com/public/a.....technology

Fly-through web searching and browsing sites like SearchMe, PicLens and SpaceTime aren’t going to replace the current click-and-load model of information foraging on the web. Google with it’s text snippets is faster and more efficient for text searches which constitute the bulk of queries.

But SearchMe and PicLens are useful for specific cases where the user is evaluating the look-and-feel and not the textual specifics of pages or images - such as image & video searches. For example, the graphic designers in our studio find these applications useful for browsing images for inspiration.

They are also useful for the growing home theater PC mode of lean-back couch surfing, which tends to be more social. I have both an HP Windows Vista-based HTPC as well as a Mac Mini that I use as my home music system, HDTV receiver, PVR, home movie and slideshow projector and occasionally to show-and-tell friends and family about viral or interesting websites and videos.

Google and the current set of dominant lean-forward web applications are not particularly pleasant to use in this environment. SearchMe and PicLense are much better suited for browsing and group-evaluating pages from a distance. As social couch surfing becomes more prevalent, these new models will take off.

cool website but hate the logo

i got to try this out yesterday, honestly this is a big step ahead for search technology i can only imagine Google getting its hands on this technology, kind of reminds me of apple’s clean cut look with itunes. I also was able to see this used in myspace and let me tell you it makes a dirty page filled with nonsense videos and junk look clean.