SearchMe Goes Offline

Okay, help me out here. Why is it that companies will rush into millions of dollars just to create a search engine that will provide a new UI to search without any added relevancy to the query results? In other words, less fluff and more stuff!

Take SearchMe for instance, now down and in a permanent holding pattern until someone else throws more money at them. Despite hearing a lot of good things about the people founding the company, it just kills me that there is more interest in building something useless in hopes of simply being bought out eventually rather than providing any actual value.

When or if they should bring SearchMe back on line, I hope that they will like so many other search engines out there realize that we could give a rat’s behind about changing “how” we search. Give us better relevance in our results, then we will care. Otherwise, stop wasting time and resources.