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SearchMe.com - Cool and Useful Visual Search

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http://www.searchme.com

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Troy

One of the coolest search engines I’ve seen in a while is SearchMe.com.  While it performs different search functions like most other search engines out there; web, images, news, and video. What sets Searchme.com apart from other search engines is the way it displays the search results.  Reminiscant of iTunes’s cool scrolling cover gallery, SearchMe.com uses a horizontal screenshot gallery of the resulting web pages.

In using SearchMe.com, I’ve found several advantages and disadvantages to this approach.  For starters, the advantages;  I actually use searchme.com in my everyday life here at “The List”.  I get 10’s of inclusion requests every day and most are actual, legitimate sites.  However, as with anything on the web, we do get the occasional spam or fishing sites that manage to wiggle past the defences.  SearchMe.com comes in very handy in seeing what is on the other end of that link, without putting my computer, files, and identity at risk.
It also provides a neat way to pre-scan the pages and highlight the search terms present on the site.

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Mahalo.com - A human powered search engine

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http://www.mahalo.com

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AOS

Mahalo… “Hawaiin for Thank You.”

Mahalo is an interesting search engine and one that I think deserves a second look.  Instead of relying on computer algorythms to determine the pages relevance, Mahalo relies on humans to create the content.  Essentially, it reminds me of a combination of wikipedia.org, de.licio.us, and Answers.com all rolled into one… but with a prettier interface.

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VideoFetcher.com - Search Hundreds of Video Sites at once.

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http://www.videofetcher.com

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unknown

VideoFetcher is an interesting new startup. It allows you to search through hundreds of different video sites, all from one location.  I did a quick search for “A-Team” and it brought back search results from several different sites including Youtube, mySpace, Yahoo! Video, AOL Uncut, and many more.

The interface is simple enough.  Once you do a search either from the browser or from  the site itself it brings you to a framed results page with a directory of sites on the left side frame and the video on the right. to switch between the video sites, you simple click on the title of the site you want to see and it shows the site on the right frame.  It even shows a little puppy icon next to the links that you’ve already visited.

Mamagets.com - Easy shopping for Busy Moms

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http://www.mamagets.com

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Troy Peterson

MamaGets.com is a simple search product search and price comparison tool powered by Shopping.com.  The site was built to demonstrate the usage of Shopping.com’s API system.

MamaGets.com doesn’t offer anything new to the comparison site market and essentially provides a stipped down version of Shopping.com’s interface.  The design is verry neat and loads rather quickly on most modern browsers.

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