Searchme Announces First True Multimedia Visual Search

For the first time relevant blended search results include it all: video, music, images and web

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire/ — Searchme, Inc. (www.searchme.com) is the first search engine to deliver blended multimedia search results in a visual format. When you search the web with Searchme, you get video, images, music, web pages and Twitter results organized by their relevance and playable inside the search results page. With blended multimedia search results, Searchme has created a search experience that better reflects the wealth of rich media that is available on the web today.

“The web isn’t just about web pages any more,” said Randy Adams, Searchme Founder and CEO. “It’s about video and music and images and social networks but the older search engines created in the last century still serve up search results as a list of links. We’ve spent the last four years inventing a new way to search and discover things on the web.”

“The challenge in presenting a blending of different media types is to get the relevance right,” said Mike Mathieson, Vice President of Research. “You need to derive a different scoring mechanism for each media type and make sure they are normalized so that one type is not more heavily favored. It is a difficult problem, but we think we’ve solved it!”

Searchme is the world’s first visual search engine, designed from the ground up to provide the user with a better search experience. Live for less than a year, Searchme has gained favor with web searchers and has more than 4 million monthly users now, and has grown more than 180% since January 2009.

About Searchme

Searchme is a new search engine that uses patented visual search and category suggest features to deliver relevant, meaningful results faster, to every kind of Internet user. Searchme was founded in 2005 by Randy Adams, CEO. The company received initial funding from Sequoia Capital. For logos, images and web/broadcast material, please visit www.searchme.com/press.

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