SearchMe visual search engine adds media search, bookmarks

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SearchMe visual search engine adds media search, bookmarks

by Brad Linder Jun 24th 2008

Visual search engine SearchMe is out of private beta and now has two nifty new features: Media search and stacks. Stacks is a fancy way of saying bookmarks, while Media Search lets you interact with online videos and images all from the SearchMe interface.

While traditional search engines like Google and Yahoo! present you with a list of text-based results, SearchMe shows screenshots of web pages matching your query. For example, searching for "Download Squad" would bring up a screenshort of our home page. When you click on the image you can visit the original page.

Now you can also click the video or images tabs and pull up screenshots of YouTube videos or Flickr images. When you click the play button you can even watch a video without leaving the SearchMe page. So you can flip through videos much like you would using the PicLens browser plugin, but without installing anyting.

The Stacks feature lets you organize collections of bookmarked pages. For example, you could create a list of your favorite tech news sites with thumbnails for easy reference. You can also share your stacks via email or social networking sites.

Tags: search-engine, searchme, visual-search

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Walley said 3:10PM on 6-24-2008

THIS...is the future of search, folks. Check it out!

Rob Walley said 3:15PM on 6-24-2008

This is the future of search!

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