SearchMe was a visual search engine A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web based in Mountain View Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The city shares its borders with the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale, as well as Moffett Federal Airfield and the San Francisco Bay. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 70,708, California California's geography ranges from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east, to Mojave desert areas in the southeast and the Redwood–Douglas fir forests of the northwest. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. California is the most. It organized search results as snapshots of web pages — an interface A graphical user interface (sometimes pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface item that allows people to interact with programs in more ways than typing such as computers; hand-held devices such as MP3 Players, Portable Media Players or Gaming devices; household appliances and office equipment with images rather than text commands. A GUI similar to that of the iPhone The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was introduced on January 9, 2007's and iTunes iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The application is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod and other digital media players such as the iPhone and iPad. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the Internet to purchase's album selection.[1][2]
In July 2009, the company lost funding and the search engine went offline The terms "online" and "offline" have specific meanings in regards to computer technology and telecommunications. In general, "online" indicates a state of connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected state. In common usage, "online" often refers to the Internet or the World Wide Web.[3]
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History
Founding
SearchMe was founded in March 2005 by Randy Adams Randy Adams is a serial entrepreneur funded by Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a founder of Funny or Die and SearchMe and John Holland.[4][5] Adams was inspired to start this search engine when his 5-year-old son was having difficulty reading. He hoped to create a search engine that "would improve the experience of finding information online".[5] Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a world leading venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms" in the world, and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms" The New York Times has called Sequoia "one of spent millions of dollars to fund SearchMe during the website's opening years.[5]
In March 2008, the site was launched in beta A software release is the distribution of software code, documentation, and other support materials, either by physical media, such as compact discs, or by download. The software release life cycle is composed of discrete phases along that describe the software's maturity as it advances from planning and development to release and support phases status. In April 2008, the company became public.[6]
Offline in July 2009
The company had 1.8 million visitors in March 2009, but by May of the same year, the number of visitors decreased to 600,000.[7] On July 24, 2009, SearchMe went offline The terms "online" and "offline" have specific meanings in regards to computer technology and telecommunications. In general, "online" indicates a state of connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected state. In common usage, "online" often refers to the Internet or the World Wide Web due to financial troubles, such as maintaining the servers In computing, a server is any combination of hardware or software designed to provide services to clients. When used alone, the term typically refers to a computer which may be running a server operating system, but is also used to refer to any software or dedicated hardware capable of providing services.[8]
Of its 45 employees, SearchMe plans to dismiss 35. The company will now concentrate on the market of broadband TV Internet television is television service distributed via the Internet. It has become very popular during the 21st century with services such as Hulu and Revision 3 in the United States, Nederland 24 in the Netherlands, ABC iView in Australia, and SeeSaw, BBC iPlayer, 4od, ITV Player and Demand Five in the United Kingdom.[8]
Searches
As searches queries are being made, SearchMe returns categories that are related to the topic. The search engine has Facebook Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than 500 million active users in July 2010.[N 1] Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks and Twitter Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to links so that the results can be shared.[9] The top of the screen displays the screenshot, while the bottom reveals the hyperlink In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to a document that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically[citation needed]. The reference points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. Such text is usually viewed with a computer. A software system for viewing and and a site's description. Moving the mouse from left to right makes the screen "flip in the corresponding direction".[10]
SearchMe's tagline A tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. The idea behind the concept is to create a memorable phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of a brand or product , or to reinforce the audience's memory of a product. Some taglines are successful enough to warrant inclusion in popular culture is "You'll know it when you see it."[11] As of March 2008, the website has indexed Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics, cognitive psychology, mathematics, informatics, physics and computer science. An alternate name for the process in the context of search engines designed to find web one billion pages.[11]
Revenue
It requires about 3 million searches every day for the company to "break even In economics & business, specifically cost accounting, the break-even point is the point at which cost or expenses and revenue are equal: there is no net loss or gain, and one has "broken even". A profit or a loss has not been made, although opportunity costs have been paid, and capital has received the risk-adjusted, expected return".[6] The website receives its revenue from advertisements Online advertising is a form of promotion that uses the Internet and World Wide Web for the expressed purpose of delivering marketing messages to attract customers. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads on search engine results pages, banner ads, Rich Media Ads, Social network advertising, interstitial ads, online classified. Advertisements are displayed through screenshots of the products or companies that are being promoted. Search results are ranked through algorithms In mathematics, computer science, and related subjects, an 'algorithm' is an effective method for solving a problem expressed as a finite sequence of instructions. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and many other fields and the number of views a website has received. Websites that are "visually appealing" are ranked higher than those that are not.[6]
Criticism
SearchMe has been criticized for not providing the number of search results, causing users to not know whether they are perusing through 10 results or 1000 results.[11] Some of SearchMe's screenshots are difficult to read, causing users to decide whether a site is relevant based on its appearance.[12] However, the website highlights the search queries for easier perusal of the screenshot.[13]
Other services
In 2007, SearchMe founded Wikiseek Wikiseek was a search engine that indexed Wikipedia pages and pages that were linked to from Wikipedia articles. The search engine was founded by Palo Alto based internet startup SearchMe and was officially launched on January 17, 2007. Most of the funding came from Sequoia Capital. It used Google ads on its search returns to generate profit. As, which indexed Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 15 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales pages and sites that were linked to from Wikipedia articles.[4]
In October 2008, SearchMe released a music streaming service Streaming media are multimedia that are constantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider . The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than to the medium itself. The distinction is usually applied to media that are distributed over telecommunications networks, as most, which enables users to download an unlimited number of songs.[14] The service relies on Imeem imeem was a social media service where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos. However, it has since been shut down now that MySpace has acquired the service's collection of music.[15]
References
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- ^ a b Arlington, Michael (2007-01-16). "Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches". TechCrunch TechCrunch is a web publication that offers technology news and analysis, as well as profiling of startup companies, products and websites. It was founded by Michael Arrington in 2005, and was first published on June 11, 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-06-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5hR3ufteL. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
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