Search the Web visually with Searchme
August 28, 2008
Visual Web searching is apparently the hot new trend (see previous entries on Cuil and RedZee). If you’d rather get your search results in pictures instead of words, you should definitely have a look at Searchme, by far the most visually impressive visual search engine.
Searchme takes a page from iTunes’ Cover Flow interface. And by a page, I mean pretty much the whole darn book. Searchme brings up a screen shot of each search result, and you can flip through each like you would album covers in iTunes. Yeah, so it’s not totally original. But it looks really, really nice, and you can get an instant look at a site before you visit.
You can save your searches in “stacks,” in which you collect your visual search results for later use like a stack of baseball cards in a shoebox. Of course, it wouldn’t be a true Web 2.0 tool if you couldn’t share your stacks with your friends. You can also filter out adult content, and have video results play automatically.
Searchme is still in Beta, so you might find a bug or two. But it looks so good, you won’t care. -BILL FERRIS
