Results 1 to 25 of 34
-
03-27-2008, 06:44 PM #1Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Oct 2007
- Location
- United States
- Posts
- 568
Searchme.com - The Google Killer?
SearchMe.com - I saw this site posted somewhere and thought it was pretty interesting.
It's a 'visual search engine' - watch the video and you'll know what I mean.
Very cool concept if done properly, I can imagine it must be pretty resource intensive though.
Basically you search for a term and you can browse through the results, but you are able to see what's on the homepage before you click through to the website.
Also, it will give you categories to choose from, example from their video: If you search for diamond back, before bringing you to the results you can choose from a category, such as: Rattlesnake/insects, bicycles, racing, etc.Last edited by eLief; 03-27-2008 at 06:51 PM.
██ eLief - Where your business matters.
██ cPanel Hosting - Reseller Hosting - VPS - Dedicated Servers - Magento Specialists
██ Celebrating over 4 years of providing quality hosting.
██ cPanel/WHM - LiteSpeed - CloudFlare - R1Soft Backups - 15k Cheetah's - 24x7 Support ›› eLief.com
-
03-27-2008, 06:53 PM #2Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Sep 2007
- Posts
- 1,220
I would think more highly of it if it didnt look like I was flipping through pages on an iPhone.
I'd be interested to see if its actually an interactive web page that you are viewing or simply a screenshot of the page.
Something like a CoolIris type of thing, but within a webpage/search engine. That way you could actually select text and scroll up and down and stuff.
-
03-27-2008, 06:59 PM #3Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jan 2005
- Posts
- 3,403
There will be issues for international users where internet connection is not good.
Loading screenshot image may take few seconds to a minute, and people will go away.PremiumReseller.com Hyper-V SSD VPS USA London Singapore
Reseller Hosting Cpanel PURE SSD CloudLinux Softaculous
Windows Reseller Asp.NET 4.5 MSSQL SmarterMail Enterprise
-
03-27-2008, 07:05 PM #4Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- May 2005
- Location
- Woking, England
- Posts
- 1,401
I think sites like this will get a certain amount of interest. I know that ask.com has been advertising a lot recently and seems to have some reasonably cool features - i'm just too google loyal...would like to try this site for real though!
Web Handyman - Website and Internet Marketing Service
-
03-27-2008, 07:08 PM #5Junior Guru
- Join Date
- Jan 2005
- Posts
- 225
"searchme it"..
nah dosnt work as opposed to "google it"
-
03-27-2008, 07:12 PM #6Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Sep 2007
- Posts
- 1,220
-
03-27-2008, 07:17 PM #7Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Apr 2004
- Location
- SF Bay Area
- Posts
- 879
-
03-27-2008, 07:20 PM #8Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Feb 2002
- Location
- Australia
- Posts
- 24,027
Not a bad idea. I like being able to flick through a bunch of sites, without having to visit them.
• WLVPN.com • NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider •
• Increase your hosting profits by adding VPN to your product line up •
-
03-27-2008, 07:51 PM #9Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jul 2004
- Posts
- 2,360
It's selling point is the UI and it is a matter of time for others, including Google, to copy it if there is demand for it.
But what others will find it hard to copy is the data-mining algorithm. Users want accurate results and that's the most important thing.
-
03-27-2008, 08:13 PM #10Evenly Divided
- Join Date
- Aug 2001
- Posts
- 4,028
-
03-27-2008, 08:55 PM #11Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Feb 2002
- Location
- Australia
- Posts
- 24,027
• WLVPN.com • NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider •
• Increase your hosting profits by adding VPN to your product line up •
-
03-27-2008, 09:44 PM #12Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Mar 2004
- Location
- USA
- Posts
- 4,345
The image slideshow is a good idea. However, I like the categorize ideas way better.
For example, If I want to search for "match" ratio, I can select so instead of having to go through all sites with the word ratio.
I can see google going that way too (categorizing search results).
I tried to register and still haven't received an invitation.
Peace,Testing 1.. Testing 1..2.. Testing 1..2..3...
-
03-27-2008, 10:14 PM #13DigitalPunchCardMaker
- Join Date
- Oct 2004
- Location
- Moji
- Posts
- 2,107
2 years, and few hundred million dollars later:
SearchMe.com - Powered by Google
-
03-27-2008, 10:21 PM #14Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Sep 2007
- Posts
- 1,220
6 months, and several dozen (possibly hundreds) scam/phishing look-a-like SEO promoted sites later.
SearchMe.com - Bailed out of the Red being bought by Google
-
03-28-2008, 03:18 AM #15Junior Guru Wannabe
- Join Date
- Dec 2004
- Location
- Delaware
- Posts
- 86
Using the beta, pretty interesting. Great idea, just depends on what you are searching for.
-
03-28-2008, 03:23 AM #16Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Feb 2002
- Location
- Australia
- Posts
- 24,027
• WLVPN.com • NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider •
• Increase your hosting profits by adding VPN to your product line up •
-
03-28-2008, 04:42 AM #17Big fan of RajiniKanth!!!
- Join Date
- Sep 2004
- Location
- Chennai , India
- Posts
- 4,632
Google is best. I don't why you are comparing this one
-
03-28-2008, 04:53 AM #18Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Feb 2002
- Location
- Australia
- Posts
- 24,027
They might even be a little ahead of Google here, in the evolution of how we use search on the internet, although obviously their search results are currently nowhere near the quality of Google's.
Google's search is textually based, and that is fine, for now, whereas this new service is visual based results. I wouldn't be surprised if Google evolved their search into something more visual in the coming years. It's not going to stay text based results forever.• WLVPN.com • NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider •
• Increase your hosting profits by adding VPN to your product line up •
-
03-28-2008, 12:12 PM #19Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Oct 2007
- Location
- United States
- Posts
- 568
I put my email in their last night and received the beta invite today, after playing around with it for about 30 minutes all I have to say is WOW.
I expected the results to take time to load all the images, but it is VERY quick. Everything loads for me in 1-2 seconds, though for those with dial-up or slower connections you might run into some problems, right?...wrong. There's also a toggle display(pictures attached) which you can show both text and images, and as you scroll through with the scroll bar the text goes along with it.
They need the spiders to crawl more frequently, it does seem to show relevant results and I like the categories feature, but the images seem to be outdated. When searching for "elief.com" it shows the page we had up 2-3 months ago.
Another thing that I don't like is you can't open multiple websites in tabs with firefox. You have to go back to the search engine if you want to go to another website, rather then opening several at once.
My rating: 7/10 - If they improve how many spiders they have crawling, come up with a better searching algorithim, and allow you to open multiple websites I would give it a 9/10.(Google, to me, is 8/10)██ eLief - Where your business matters.
██ cPanel Hosting - Reseller Hosting - VPS - Dedicated Servers - Magento Specialists
██ Celebrating over 4 years of providing quality hosting.
██ cPanel/WHM - LiteSpeed - CloudFlare - R1Soft Backups - 15k Cheetah's - 24x7 Support ›› eLief.com
-
03-28-2008, 12:14 PM #20Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Feb 2008
- Location
- USA!
- Posts
- 256
google will NEVER fall to a company like this, they will buy em or heck... even kill em lol
Cheap hosting, not cheap service:
http://www.aqns-hosting.com
-
03-28-2008, 12:22 PM #21Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Aug 2003
- Location
- Dallas, TX USA
- Posts
- 2,812
I've been doing that with Cooliris
-
03-28-2008, 01:43 PM #22Eternal Member
- Join Date
- Nov 2002
- Location
- Lakeport CA, Clear Lake
- Posts
- 1,856
I like it, I got on instantly and did a search for catfish. My site came up near the top.
-
03-28-2008, 02:05 PM #23Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Oct 2007
- Location
- United States
- Posts
- 568
██ eLief - Where your business matters.
██ cPanel Hosting - Reseller Hosting - VPS - Dedicated Servers - Magento Specialists
██ Celebrating over 4 years of providing quality hosting.
██ cPanel/WHM - LiteSpeed - CloudFlare - R1Soft Backups - 15k Cheetah's - 24x7 Support ›› eLief.com
-
03-28-2008, 02:14 PM #24Devil's Advocate
- Join Date
- Jul 2005
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Posts
- 3,883
eye candy for sure but it will last a very short time...when the novelty factor wears off.
what serious person is going to change from using google or even yahoo or msn for that matter? I'd say not many at all.
maybe they'll improve it drastically.
owmLast edited by Outlaw Web Master; 03-28-2008 at 02:17 PM.
‹(•¿•)›
Life's what you make it.
-
03-28-2008, 02:39 PM #25Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Aug 2003
- Location
- Dallas, TX USA
- Posts
- 2,812