SearchMe Changes
May 1, 2009
SearchMe, http://www.searchme.com, promotes itself as “true, blended multimedia search.” You get video, images, music, web pages, Twitter results and more organized by relevance. It’s a visual slideshow interface, so you see a miniature web page instead of having to click through a link. Results returned for “Iron Chef Japan” varied, including a Flickr picture, a Yahoo! video, an About.com listing for Japanese food and the Fine Living channel profile of the show. Results for “NASA shuttle launch” were less impressive, returning the NASA home page, a CBS news article and a CNN news article, but no videos. I didn’t see any social media results on either search. The web site functions like Viewzi, which I talked about here, but doesn’t have the various entertaining display options. Searchme also has a best-selling iApp and is configured for several mobile platforms, which gives it a leg up on other visual search engines.
Jessica Bratcher, May 1, 2009
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I was asked to participate in a venture capital search for Searchme.com in April, but declined.
I compared Searchme against Google and the search algorithms that Searchme uses are terrible. You get inconsistent search results. As a consultant and strategist I was very critical of Searchme. You cannot continue to throw venture capital this company. Sequoia really made a mistake funding round after round on Searchme. I am afraid that they dragged a lot of other VC’s and angels down with them. I really wanted to talk to Randy Adams, CEO, Searchme, but he failed to return any of my telephone calls or answer my emails. For a site that has been around for three years or so, you would think that they would have 1 billion unique visitors per month, big numbers like Google, but they don’t. Read my blog and see what I have to say about Searchme’s strategy