SEO 101

Maybe MacIntosh was onto something when they created the iPhone to easily glide through albums or images but there is a new visual search engine in town that is taking similar concepts and using it towards search engines, SearchMe. SearchMe allows users to visually search the web rather than by text like Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves (Jeeves - whatever they’re called now). A lot of pages found on the search engines can be deceptive where it turns out what you were searching for isn’t on the page you clicked on.  Well, now you’d have to hit the arrow button to go back to the search engine to find a page that contains what you’re looking for. Call it laziness, call it whatever you will.

SearchMe allows users to visually scroll through web results of what the user is searching for before they click on the site. It definitely helps you avoid pages you don’t want to go into. If you can’t read what is on the site, you can zoom in the site for a larger view similar to the iPhone.

SearchMe allows users to search 3 different ways: visual search, category suggest and list view. For example, if you were searching for cherry blossoms, you would see visual results of webpages containing webpages. You can scroll through the webpages to see which site fits your needs the most. For the category suggest, if you search a keyterm that is ambiguous, you’ll see at the top of the page category suggestions for the keyterm you typed in. As for list view, the search results show text results as well as visual results of webpages – which you can resize whether you want the visual view bigger or the list view bigger.

SearchMe may just be the new way to search online.

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