I have been reading about a new search engine called search me http://www.searchme.com

It has an excellent user interface, it appears to be always displaying 3 search results per page, which would heavily increase the importance of being in the top three search results. It is easy to navigate, and is very effective way to shop. It allows you to make judgment calls ahead of time, so you do not waste your time clicking on site that you would have no interest in seeing. An interface and user experience like this will accelerate the speed of search.

In looking at the log files, it appears that their spider is running some type of javascript that allows them to capture everything on your site and allow them to display your entire home page within the search results.

This graphic interface is hot, but the system resources required to scale this type of searching would be enormous. I would imagine they would need a huge amount of infrastructure for this to work efficently.

The search results appear to be heavily weighted towards the URL; a few searches display results with the search term as part of the sites URL are always on top. Needless to say, a great interface is a good start, but the right search results is paramount.

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