SearchMe Goes Offline

Posted by on Jul 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

There should be an image here!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.

  • raoulle

    Relevance is good but not always needed, sometimes it is perfect to be able to browse through sites without opening hundreds of tabs.

    I can go through googles 50 pages of links and still not find exactly what i’m looking for…. Searchme was perfect in that situation.

    Searchme was also my favourite music video browser by far.

    To me it is very sad that an alternative view of searching has left the scene.

  • http://twitter.com/HarryMonmouth Harry Monmouth

    I would have to keep my blog separate.  I want to write whatever I feel like and if I had the watching eyes of everyone I ever met on me I wouldn’t be able to write hardly anything.  I would have to think things through so much.  At the moment I don’t even put my photos on Facebook.  That is what Flickr is for.

  • http://twitter.com/FabulousTahoe Jack Durst

    I much prefer not to put all my eggs in one basket, I have facebook, twitter, Google+ and a YouTube besides.