Sequoia-backed visual search engine SearchMe finally got approval on their iPhone application – it appears to have been sitting at Apple waiting for approval for over two months.
Well, it was worth the wait. Like Google’s voice recognition app, it’s a much better search experience than the default Google search built into the iPhone browser. The app gives you a visual preview of all search results, which is a noticeably better way of searching on a small screen with a small virtual keyboard.
It isn’t in the app store yet directory yet, but you can download it here.
As an aside, will an iPhone developer please send me a screen shot of the “review pending” page that you have to look at day after day as you wait weeks, or possibly months, for Apple to get around to approving your app?
We have been using SearchMe search and it is intriguing. This type of format will be popular with the hi tech crowd.
But their SERPs still lack relevancy because of long periods between updates and new sites added
Intriguing yes, perfect… no but that’s ok, they’re early stage.
What I don’t understand is how do they make money? What’s the proposition? They, like others in this space, are mostly giving away their service for free. To what end? To charge users a fee during a transaction effected using thier service? I wouldn’t pay it. Advertising? Isn’t that already a tired, ineffective model? Hard to imagine that Sequoia is funding these guys after seeing the content of the ppt they destributed to their portfolio companies.
All the more options the.. The better.
I’m still playing with the G app but will give this one a shot as well — sounds like a winner
Best,
Mike
http://www.wannadevelop.com
Seems useful. Two thumbs up!
better be better on the iphone than the web. slow and relevance issues. yikes.
gimmick?
This app is awesome! Allows much more rapid loading of web pages,and options! Check it out
Could we have an alternate iPhone app free feed from Techcruch? The # of iPhone apps promoted on here is getting a bit out of hand.
This is one of the suckiest search apps I have seen – Klunky, slow and their search results suck. they do not even support most of the basic zoon, pinch and other interface elements. Take a cue from Cooliris and make the app look beautiful and useful at the same time.
My bet is that soon Cooliris will allow users to search over any search engine of your choice using their awesome interface, and then SearchMe will have to lay off the rest of their employees (Rumor has it that they already let go of 50% of their employees last month).
Here’s a screen of what you have to look at while waiting for Apple to approve your iPhone app. Note that this is for an app upgrade, but the original approval is nearly identical:
http://www.jigg...pdate-in-review