Visual Search Engine Searchme Gets $31 Million, Launches Beta

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 12, 2008 - 7:27am.

Mountain View, Calif. - Searchme, a new search engine that delivers results as a browsable stack of preview pages, and provides suggestions of categories as users type search terms, has announced the launch of its search engine in private beta.

The company has raised $31 million in financing over the past three years, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from DAG Ventures and Lehman Brothers, AllThingsD.com reports. Private investors include actor Will Ferrell.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Searchme's engine delivers results in a layout similar to the scrollable album cover art feature in Apple's iTunes.

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http://www.searchme.com

Published in DMW Daily, March 12, 2008

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SpaceTime Invented 3D Visual Search

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on March 12, 2008 - 9:44am.

Actually, SpaceTime is the inventor of 3D Visual Search on the internet. You can view it at http://www.spacetime.com and try the real product now that is available. Searchme is an attempt to mimick the patent-pending process that SpaceTime launched this year at CES. The nice thing about SpaceTime is that you can search Google, Yahoo, eBay, RSS, Amazon and Images. In Searchme, you really don't know who is compiling the search results or how good they are. SpaceTime also delivers the ability to interact with your web pages whereas in Searchme, you are just looking at a photograph of a web page that is not the real thing.