Category Archives: Searchme

Grab an instant Searchme Beta access account.

We’re starting to roll things out at Searchme. Head over to searchme.com to sign up for a Beta invite. On our press page you can check out screen shots and videos of our search engine. Note that we’re still working really hard to continue to build and improve all components of the engine, hence the ubiquitous “Beta” label.

I think there’s a bit of confusion because people are comparing us to other “visual” engines like snap.com. But snap.com uses Yahoo as its search engine whereas we’ve built everything in-house from our web map to our index to our classifiers, etc. I also hope people see that we’re a classification engine, which is one of the things my team works on, as well as presenting search results differently. Classifying the web at such a massive scale is a new thing as far as I know.

There are some articles circulating. On TechCrunch SearchMe Launches New Search Engine With Heavy Backing From Sequoia. And on All Things Digital Searchme: A New Visual Search Engine.

And here’s a silly little video that shows our engine…

I’m hiring a Search Analyst. If you know anyone please pass this info on. The job can be located in San Francisco or Palo Alto.

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Search Analyst - Searchme, Inc.

Searchme is doing some innovative things with search, and we are looking for someone with a passion for excellent search results to join our Search Quality Department. As a Search Analyst, you will improve Searchme’s vertical search results by providing the classification engine with good and bad examples of hundreds of different topics. You will also evaluate and help to improve the overall quality of Searchme search results. We are particularly interested in candidates who have search engine experience identifying spam.

Responsibilities will include:

• Building editorial training sets to be the basis of our categorization technology.
• Identifying and fighting spam.
• Analyzing search results to improve relevancy.
• Analyzing vertical suggests to ensure that queries are properly disambiguated.
• Working closely with the Engineering Department on all aspects related to search quality and ontology.
• Focusing on specific near-term projects as well as thinking long-term about the direction of search.

Ideal applicants will:

• Have in-depth knowledge of how search engines work.
• Have 3 or more years of experience working at a search engine, particularly as a Spam Cleaner, Quality Rater, Search Quality Analyst, Surfer, Web Editor, Search Editor, Relevancy Tester, Relevancy Judge, etc.
• Be sophisticated in techniques for identifying various types of spam pages.
• Understand the structure of the web.
• Be able to work collaboratively with different teams.
• Have the flexibility required of working in a startup environment.
• Have an advanced degree in Information Sciences or other pertinent fields.

Offices located near San Francisco’s South Park and also in Downtown Palo Alto.

There are some new job postings listed now on the Searchme jobs page. Look at those job descriptions flying!

* Sr Software Engineer (Webmap)
* Sr Software Engineer (Server, C++)
* Sr Software Engineer, Crawl/Index
* Sr Database Engineer
* Document Repository Engineer
* Relevance Engineer/Scientist
* Software QA Back-End Engineer

Most of the jobs can be in the Palo Alto or San Francisco office.

Hey, look. A couple of new Searchme press releases:

Searchme Names Ralph Rabbat as Chief Software Architect

Searchme Opens New San Francisco Office

And, hey, a new corporate blog:
Searchme Blog

April 2 update, another press release: Searchme Expands Search Expertise With the Addition of Dr. Eric Glover as Senior Staff Scientist

Searchme just opened a new office in San Francisco. We’re on 2nd near Bryant, across from South Park. So now we have our HQ in Palo Alto and a satellite office in SF.

All you search-engineer-suckers who are still commuting from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, nudge nudge, drop me a line if you’d like to find out more about the openings we have for great C++ search engineers.

I used to commute an hour and a half each way to Yahoo. Now my commute is about 15 minutes each way. It’s like I have my life again.

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