SearchMe Announces Integrated Search Results Visually – Pages, Video, Music All-in-One Result
SearchMe.com, a visual search engine that has only been available for less than one year, announces a new feature for their new visual search service . They now can integrate all the content types into one result via their unique visual display capability. Very nice feature. Even more compelling on the iPhone.
Searchme has been quietly building it’s own search engine. A search engine unlike what others have tried or dared to do – build their own search and innovate on the visual side. All this while other search companies like Yahoo are fighting to innovate and survive (announcing massive layoffs again).
Building a search engine from scratch is hard. One company that tried to do this is Cuil. However after a hyped up launch Cuil flopped big time. Unlike Cuil, SearchMe has been very quiet not to hype up it’s new search engine. SearchMe has been humble and is quickly gaining momentum in the market. It’s growing rapidly among fans online young and old. But more importantly SearchMe is gaining fans in the most important emerging user areas – Facebook, Iphone, and Twitter.
Other companies doing this visual thing or visual display don’t dare take on the technical challenge of building search and social technology like SearchMe . Why? It costs a lot of money to get things right. SearchMe has raised over $40 million in venture and is now looking for another round of financing. If you think about it $40 million really isn’t that much to build a highly scalable search engine.
Building a search engine is the Internet version of building a chip fabrication company – the investment level is high in order to bring the value to the consumer. As Google and others continue to push the scale advantage it will be difficult for upstarts like SearchMe to develop. If financed properly SearchMe could go on and dominate this new user market.
Here is the video that I shot at Ad:Tech SF 2009 with John Galatea the VP of Marketing and Sales.
Editors Note: It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of SearchMe. Randy Adams and his team were the first inaugural corporate members of the SiliconAngle community. That being said I love what these guys are doing – they are thinking bold and executing.
SearchMe has a robust search engine that is very solid for less than a year in the market. SearchMe has innovated the visual side, they have an iPhone app, Facebook presence, a social media product with the Stacks feature (I think this needs a tweak but I love the feature), and they just announced Nokia support – hello mobile. Another thing that impresses me about SearchMe is that they are seeing the visual opportunity beyond the web – mobile and IPTV are prime interfaces for SearchMe’s innovative search results.
SearchMe is the kind of venture that Silicon Valley is known for – a bold vision with solid execution in a big growing relevant market.
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