see your search

I found a pretty cool search engine today… and no, I didn’t make it (askfoyle.com). lol. I mentioned to my buddy this morning that I did some preliminary coding of a search engine to see what I could do (perhaps more on that in the future), and he showed me this: Searchme

What’s cool about this search system is that rather than returning many text links like I’m used to seeing in Google, MSN, or whatever it is I (you) normally use to search, I see a screenshots of the website. This is no tiny little image leaving me to guess at what the site really could look like. It’s a fairly large representation of the site that I can somewhat read. Wait a few seconds longer after my search and my keywords will be circled within those images. Scroll through the resulting images like a jukebox to find what I’m looking for.

And… the whole thing appears to be presented using Flash. Yeah, a flash coded search engine. That’s not normal.

It’s currently in beta, but it still returns the results I was looking for. Oh, and it’s not kicking MODSonline out of the search like Google started doing to me this past weekend (unless you search for modsonline.com).

Follow-up: Go figure, Google has taken me back. What did I do to fix it? Nothing. lol.

Posted in: General »  by: foyleman

One Response to “see your search”

1. Playername  Says:
   May 12th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

   Hehe that is cool! I like it much better than Google! It is nice for the pictures… It even has mine (that is dead atm) on there!

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