Searchme Visual Search

After stumbling the web for a while a couple of days ago I found a site called Searchme and I have to say ‘what a site’.

As Searchme profess on their website they are a ‘visual search engine’ meaning results for key phrases are returned in the form of pictures (screen shots) of websites. Key phrases are also highlighted to indicate where your search was matched.

Now if this wasn’t good enough, to be honest I was very impressed at this stage anyway, I then proceeded to the video search section and was blown away by the visual display of the videos as well as the overall acuracy of the search results.

Being able to search the videos through cover flow certainly makes life a hell of a lot easier and faster. I could breeze past the videos I didn’t want to see and simply select the videos I did and watch them there and then on the Searchme site.

I really believe as this site grows in popularity and they improve their ranking system of indexed sites Searchme will become a very popular search engine.

What would I improve?

Well I guess I would look to offer other types of views other than just cover flow.  A thumbnail view and I dare I say it a plain old list view caters for all needs, but then again maybe that starts to move the site away from its original intention.