A long time, Google search service in the field of lead status and no one can, in the face of boring the search pages, is not for a change?
Google and Yahoo have invested in Sequoia Capital aimed at the search of a new model - Visual search, and in the near future in the field of Searchme a fifth round of investment, the total amount of investment reached 43.6 million U.S. dollars, Investment institutions also include Lehman Brothers and DAG Ventures, and so on. By Sequoia Capital's favor, more or less can be regarded as the future development of the market is a possible direction.
On a search, the general people will think of is to enter a keyword in the search box, press the Enter key, then all the search results to find the best, this search method for many users with a very good Service, it has made Google's success, but now there are also some users want the search to become more intelligent, more attractive, or even can lead to better visual effects. Reportedly, Google is also a visual search test.
It is unclear whether the success of Google's pilot, but there have been some arrests the eye visual search application, which is more prominent and Searchme SpaceTime, and only use the text line by line to show different results, the new Application results will be used more in the form of visual effects to show. SpaceTime used to display three-dimensional view of search results, Searchme is actually a search engine, like the same page in the form of fans to show the search results pages. The ultimate aim of the two applications are to change the existing search users, with more intuitive, visual way to select the most consistent with the results of their own needs, instead of relying on speculation the search results described in the text to determine which Results in line with their own needs.
Web-based search engine Searchme can work on Windows and Mac operating system, and any major browser, which allows users to search or select a category to improve the search experience. For example, in the search box, enter "the U.S. Open," the right of the search box will display a list of categories, including "tennis," "squash" and "golf", "lottery", then users will be able to choose and They are in need of the most relevant categories, a more accurate search, which revealed that search results will be more in line with the needs of users.
Searchme visual search through the page to achieve the snapshot, keyword search in each and every page highlighted. In these pages show that the bottom will be a parallel scrolls, use the mouse to display pages can be replaced. And the bottom of the page there is a button to display the relevant pages and the text and links list view. Despite the current Searchme can use visual means nearly 10 billion pages indexed, but Searchme not meet the staff, efforts are being made to Searchme search capabilities become more powerful, more relevant search results.
At present, Searchme also testing phase, as to their future business model, or the idea of ads, text links, or in visual page to the image ads.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Searchme: search for a new way
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