I think I am a little behind here on the technology curve, but someone at Adobe showed me this the other day. I heard that this project was in work, but I never actually took the time to go check it out myself. So here it is, SearchMe.com a visual way to search the web. Enjoy! I am sure this technology will be bought by one of the big hitters eventually. I love how they used Flex and repurposed the cover flow UI that Apple has so generously introduced in their products.
Reminds me of this statement:
The greatest revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before.
They happen when someone radically changes something that was always there
In this example SearchMe took something like a search engine (already known) and totally redesigned its use, giving users a new experience to a common task such as searching for something on the web. I like it, cant wait to see more experiences like this across the web.
#1 by Michael Dinowitz - July 24, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Its search algorithm is faulty as hell and that's just the start. A hosting company is number 3, sys-con is listed as 5, 6 and 8. And House of Fusion with it's 10+ years of existence and content? Good question. Keep going on and on and on and maybe you'll see it past sites without any relevance.
And the scrolling is ok in concept but in execution the pages shown will almost always be out of date and each page is it's own entity. The back button brings you back 1 page so looking at 10 pages means your browsers cache has 10 pages in cache.
To quote in living color...hated it
Each scrolled page is its own 'page' so going back by back button is kindof i
#2 by Stephen Weber - July 24, 2008 at 2:43 PM