SearchMe’s new “Stacks” function is so, so hot.
4 Comments | Posted: June 24th, 2008 | Filed under: Outbound Linkage | Tags: search, searchmeIf you’re not familiar with SearchMe, it’s a new search engine that uses an iTunes-like view of webpages so you can look at a site before clicking over. It’s a pretty radical change in the way search has worked in the past and with offerings like the “stacks” function shown above with some random pages from the “comic books” search, I can’t help but think they’re onto something major.
(Sorry, this is probably something that isn’t that interesting to anyone who isn’t me, but c’mon, that’s slick.)
Do you have to teach it to find results? I can’t find anything near the top results of things I’m searching for with it.
Wow, this is cool. I notice that it finds common categories for your search before you even click the button, so you can narrow down the search before you even start. For example, type in beaucoupkevin, and it gives you comic books, music, blogs, online forums. Then it leaves the categories (tags, whatever) up in case you want to change it.
Question: How are they on actually finding things? Compared to Google, I mean.
They’re getting there. Google has had a decade to tweak its search algorithms, and while certain results are “expected” by users like us trained on Google, they seem to realize they’ve got a ways to go to deliver the same reliability. The only way to improve it is to use it, though, and I try to a couple times a day.
Makes sense; thanks for the clarification. I’m amazed at how swiftly and smoothly the interface runs. We are one step closer to building a virtual sandwich. Just like Tony Stark.