Showing posts with label Search Engine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search Engine. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Review of Searchme.com


Quick review. I have been playing with Seachme.com. They have a great idea and I hope they can do it justice. My concerns are as follows:

- If you are going to create a search engine, your number one priority must be your algorithm. If people are not happy with your search results, they will quit searching, no matter how cool the interface it. Having said that, I am not sure they are making the right decision by reinventing the wheel on this. This might have been better off to use Google's search results.

- What is Searchme's business model. I think we are at the point where, if you are a search engine, you need to be doing PPC. I hope that Searchme, comes up with a cool way of serving PPC ads, while not compromising their user experience.

- There is still glitches here and there. For example, Safari hesitates as a query is typed. I think it has something to do with the search category functionality. But this is a beta, and I fully expect them to work these glitches out.

- Finally, I would hope Searchme decides no show live shots of the search results. There is nothing worse than landing in a place you were not expecting.

Hopefully, this does not come off sounding like a lot of grumbling. I am exited to see where they goes.