Tag: VISUAL-SEARCH

Visual search engine SearchMe is out of private beta and now has two nifty new features: Media search and stacks. Stacks is a fancy way of saying bookmarks, while Media Search lets you interact with online videos and images all from the SearchMe interface. While traditional search engines like Google and Yahoo! present you with a list of text-based results, SearchMe shows screenshots of web ...

Text based search engines are all right if you're looking for text-based web pages. But Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google all have features that let you search for images or videos, because let's face it, that's what you're looking for on the internet much of the time. But the major search engine's approach toward image and video search feels a lot like the old fashioned approach to text-based ...

When you go to a search engine and enter a search term, you're never quite sure what you're going to get. Google, Yahoo! and all the other major search engines will spit out a list of links with brief snippets of text that should give you a rough idea of what's on each web page. But until you click through, it's hard to tell if you'll find what you're looking for. One way to fix this ...