Stacks, I liked this feature. It can come in real handy when you are researching on a topic or collecting sites writing about a particular topic. It can be a great help for bloggers who read a lot and like to organize their searches and information so that they can visit later and pickup from where they left off. Stacks also lets you share your collection of webpages, videos and images with your friends through e-mail, facebook, blog, etc…

Media Search, This feature is not any different from the Image search on Google. In addition users can also search for videos on SearchMe, though the videos currently come only from Youtube, however, we can expect to see content from more video sites coming in. The best part of Video search is the categorization.

Media search from SearchMe reminds me of PicLens media search plugin, though they cannot be compared, I like PicLens better for media search though, I hope they include categorization soon.

Watch the following videos to see the new features on SearchMe in action.

Stacks

Media Search

A new day brings a new “Me too” search engine which strongly believes that search engine market is big enough for everyone to survive (Only time will tell). SearchMe offers new revolutionary technology which delivers search results in site snapshots instead of text.

If you have ever used iTunes to browse through your tracks using Cover Flow 3D graphical interface you will know how SearchMe works. Following image shows what the search results look like

Reasons why I think SearchMe might not be a success

• SearchMe is not clearly solving any problem
• Its easier and quicker to browse through text than images specially when you are looking for text based information.
• Image search engines require more clicks and add more steps involved in the process of searching and reaching the destination site.
• Rendering images require more resources than showing text based results thus shooting the maintenance and infrastructure cost through the roof.
• Business model? Advertising can only be successful if there are enough users searching on SearchMe..

Being that said, it will be interesting to see how SearchMe attracts users and keep them coming back to search more.

SearchMe is not open for users yet, however, you can signup for a beta tester.

Watch the following video to see what SearchMe looks like.

These are my initial reactions, I will write more about SearchMe once I get to use it. Till then feel free to tell us what you think.