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| Jul 24, 2009 | SearchMe May Go Offline Tomorrow (Updated: Offline Now) | An Update to our post yesterday about Sequoia-funded search startup SearchMe. The company needs a new round of financing or a quick acquisition to stay online, but so far neither are happening. CEO Randy Adams wrote to me this morning with ... |
| Jul 24, 2009 | SearchMe Searching For A Buyer | We’ve known that that visual search engine SearchMe has been looking for a new round of financing these last few months. But from what we hear they aren’t having a lot of luck closing that financing – something was on the table, our sources... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design | What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information-dense and easy to scan, but it can be overwhelming. More visually appealing ways to manage data are needed. T... |
| Jun 17, 2009 | Visual Search Engine SearchMe Moves Ad Platform Out Of Beta | SearchMe, the search engine startup which presents search results as a stack of full-page previews that you can flip through, is bringing its ad network out of beta. The SearchMe ad platform, which was originally named AdView when it launch... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | The deep Web and the future of finding things | The discovery landscape
Wize Deep Web
A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe... |
| Feb 24, 2009 | Paid Search Just Got Visual: SearchMe Launches AdView Beta (Free Ads For First 500 Signups) | What happens when you make paid search ads both relevant and visual? Searchme, the search engine startup which presents results as a stack of full-page previews that you can flip through, is hoping to find out with the beta launch of AdView... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Superfish search by sight reeling in cash | Superfish visual search engine raises $5.3 million in Series B funding
Superfish, a visual search engine startup, raised $5.3 million in Series B funding today, according to a PEHub report.
Having nothing to show yet but a simple message an... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 | Editor’s Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog.
In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen — a lot. Goog... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | SearchMe's Visual Search For the iPhone Finally Launches | Sequoia-backed visual search engine SearchMe finally got approval on their iPhone application – it appears to have been sitting at Apple waiting for approval for over two months.
Well, it was worth the wait. Like Google’s voice recognition ... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | SearchMe Adds Music Search With Unlimited Streaming Via Imeem Widgets | Okay, this has to be the coolest hack of the week. Visual search engine SearchMe has just added a music search tab that brings back results with free, legal, unlimited full-song streams and cover art you can flip through. It’s CoverFlow on ... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | Q&A with SearchMe’s Randy Adams, on making cuts and surviving | Earlier today, we reported that visual search engine startup SearchMe had laid off 20 percent of its workforce. Lots of startups are laying off workers this week, but SearchMe is led by long-time Valley veteran Randy Adams. He survived the ... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | Search engine startup SearchMe cuts 20 percent of staff | The streets of Silicon Valley are running red this week. The latest startup to pare down is search engine SearchMe, a company with high-profile investors and a warchest of nearly $40 million.
It reduced its staff by two-thirds, says one sou... |
| Oct 6, 2008 | SearchMe Calls Out Yahoo On BOSS Screenshot | SearchMe, a new Sequoia-backed search engine that launched in March, isn’t happy with some of the screen shots that have been seen around the Internet promoting Yahoo’s new BOSS (“Build Your Own Search Service”) product.
In particular, this... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | Searchme Launches Visual Search Engine For Mobile Devices | Searchme is starting to focus much of its time in the mobile space. Last week, it said it will launch an iPhone app and today it announced that it has launched a visual search engine for mobile devices that can be accessed by surfing to the... |
| Sep 12, 2008 | SearchMe Is Coming To The iPhone (Naturally) | We once asked if Apple’s CoverFlow is a better interface for image search than the typical thumbnail grid approach. But what about for mobile search? SearchMe thinks it is good for both.
The visual search engine that launched last March is ... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs | While we’ve waited with bated breath for the release of Delicious 2.0 (Yahoo’s been teasing us for months), Ryan Sit, the creator of Swurl, a recently launched startup that offers a lifecasting aggregator for web activity, has been toying a... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | SearchMe Launches Stacks, Gets Serious About Search Relevance | New Sequoia-backed visual search engine SearchMe launched a bunch of new features today – new video and image search engines as well as a new visual bookmarking tool called stacks.
The main new feature, stacks, allows users to bookmark and ... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | Got a story to tell? Capzles hopes to build multi-media social network | The latest niche social network to launch, Capzles, is a “social storytelling” site that lets you frame picture, video, documents and other media.
It lets you place personal media online — in the form of a timeline. The site’s slick interfa... |
| Jun 9, 2008 | Exclusive Access to Viewzi, The Ridiculously Flexible Visual Search | One of the problems with visual search sites is that most of them are only suited for a few specific kinds of queries. Try searching for a song on SearchMe, and you’re more likely to get a Wikipedia page than an MP3. Viewzi, a startup out o... |
| May 30, 2008 | More betting on visual search: SearchMe raises another $12.6M | Like many people, I assume that Google is going to keep on taking over the search market. Not to be deterred, however, visual search company SearchMe has raised another $12.6 million on top of previous funding totalling $31 million, from so... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Viewzi provides a window to the multi-view future of search | Quietly launching into beta this week, Viewzi hasn’t yet kicked up much fanfare. Tucked well away from Silicon Valley in Dallas, Tex., where it was started just over a year ago by a pair of former Broadcast.com execs, it’s a small search st... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | ChunkIt—Yet Another Search Plug-In. Yawn. | I am sorry, but making search better does not entail making me do more work. That seems to be the philosophy behind ChunkIt, a browser-plug-in that enhances your searches on Google, Yahoo, and other engines. It opens up a new pane that take... |
| Mar 21, 2008 | Get Into The SearchMe Private Beta Right Now | New Sequoia-backed visual search engine SearchMe is just starting to send invitations to their private beta, which launched last week. The company says there are 30,000 people now on the waiting list. But if you want to get in now, just cli... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | ManagedQ wants to be ‘Windows for search’ | ManagedQ has joined the long line of start-ups claiming to be the hot new thing in search. It’s still hard to imagine that anyone will gain real traction against Google, but ManagedQ’s combination of visual search and natural language proce... |
| Mar 13, 2008 | The Best Tools for Visualization | Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communi... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | SearchMe Launches New Search Engine With Heavy Backing From Sequoia | Mountain View based SearchMe has been around since 2005 and has raised $31 million from Sequoia, DAG Ventures and Lehman Brothers. But until last weekend when I met founders Randy Adams and John Holland I knew next to nothing about them. It... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | SearchMe, a search engine startup with a visual interface and a lot of funding | SearchMe is another search startup that wants to take on Google.
It is a visual search engine, that shows you results in a series of revolving panes, with each pane featuring a search result. In iTunes, this format is used to feature the co... |
| Dec 25, 2006 | The Wikisearch Screenshot Isn't Wikiasari, So What Is It? | A couple of days ago I posted a screenshot of what I believed to be an early version of the new Wikiasari search engine that Jimmy Wales has been talking about. Our source was good, and I went with it.
But Wales is saying that the screensho... |