http://www.searchlounge.org Here in the lounge you'll find my subjective, though hopefully useful, reviews of Internet search engines. Enjoy! Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:37:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bing is playing around with some new visual search functionality. Check it out here: Bing Visual Search. Have a look here at US Presidents. I like the layout - it's clean and easy to see a lot of images at once. It's cool how you can mouse ... http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=183 As has been well publicized, Searchme shut off the lights last week. It's sad for all of us who worked so hard over the past few years to build the engine. We came from nothing and made tremendous progress for such a small team. I'm really proud ... http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=182 An interesting new search engine. Supercruil. http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=181 Hey look, an embedded version of Searchme. Try a search... http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=179 I'm one of those (OK, maybe I'm THE only one) internet librarian types who is coming late to the Library Thing party. Please help me use it. I like it but I'm not really sure why and not sure how exactly I should be using it to ... http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=178 When I joined Searchme in 2006 a couple other startup search engines were making headlines. Powerset, which recently got bought by Microsoft, and Cuil, which launched today. Cuil has been known as the startup building the huge index. I ran some pet queries and it seems like ... http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=177 What if search engines did the following? Looked for all the queries that returned no results. Clustered those queries into topics. And then either: a) Paid people to create matching content. b) Sold that list of queries/topics to 3rd party companies. Imagine all the spam. http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=99 Imagine this scenario: you get a letter at your home saying come to an address because your favorite shoes are on sale, and you go there and instead they pack you into a bus and drive you across town to another store. And at that second store they ... http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=176 A stack I created when I was shopping for a new model Bonnie motorcycle. SearchmeMaximize stack view http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=175 Today we at Searchme launched a new tool called Stacks. Here's an example of a stack I made of photos of some of the best goalies. (I'm still looking for a cool, large image of Brad Friedel in action). ... http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=174