Today I learned about a new search engine at www.searchme.com. This new search engine uses Flash to show you large snapshots of the websites in the search results so you can see the page before you go to the link. It’s similar to the Apple website or Amazon.com’s “Search Inside” feature in the way it displays multiple search results via images that are selectable by arrows that let you go forward or backward through the search results.
New search engine Searchme.com
It also gives you the page description text just like Google and all the other search engines do, but in this case, you have a much better clue as to whether or not you are going to find what you are looking for before you click on a search result link.
If you have children who are going to use searchme.com, under the preferences menu pick, you can choose to filter adult content. You can also choose the ‘day’ or ‘night’ theme to change the background color of the search results. If you choose the ’searchme lite’ feature, the search results are displayed as thumbnails and text descriptions.
Search me lets you save your favorite pages or search results in ’stacks’. The tutorial video on stacks on the searchme.com site explains how you can put all of the news sites you read on a daily basis into a stack and click through all of them one at a time. Or you can share a stack of vacation ideas with your friend via email, and upload stack HTML code to your blog. Very cool.
I am surprised that this new search engine uses Flash and not Ajax and Javascript to display the results. But I am amazed at all the features it offers. Let me know what you think of it!