Searchme: Most Visual Search Engine Yet? - Searchme’s Helpful Tricks
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So Searchme shows you screen shots of various web pages that you can sift through for the one that meets your needs. But you can’t actually read the page from the screen shot; at least I couldn’t. What if you want more information before actually visiting the page? That’s not a problem; just hover over it with your mouse and Searchme delivers, as you can see from the screen shot below.
A rectangle scrolls up smoothly from the bottom of the screen shot with the web page’s title, a blurb, and its URL. If you think the page is inappropriate in some way, you can click on the red “flag as inappropriate” link to let Searchme know.
What if you’re feeling nostalgic for that good old list of links approach to search? Not everyone is in love with visual search after all. Searchme has thought of the text hounds out there too. In my first image of the search engine in action, you may have noticed something that looked like a white dot below the slider. That’s actually an arrow (trust me, it’s a lot clearer in real life). When you click it, that list of links you're longing for slides up from the bottom of the screen, as you’ll see in the screen shot below.
You'll notice that one of the links in the list of links appears in a box. It's highlighted in this way because it belongs to the web page that is front and center in the visual part of Searchme’s search results. You’ll also notice that a vertical slider appears on the right hand side of the text-based part of the page. That slider works only with the list of links; it does not cause the web page screen shots to move at all.
When you move the horizontal slider for the web page screen shot results, however, it causes the rectangle in the list of links to move so it corresponds to whichever page is front and center. If that link is not actually on the screen, the list scrolls until it is. When you’re ready to get rid of the list and go back to full-screen visual browsing, all you have to do is hit the arrow button again.
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