View Internet search results through a new lens at SearchMe, an engine that displays results not in the usual text-list format (that's so Google), but as a slick image gallery of actual Web pages you can flip through and filter results by topic. A query on Montana, for example, lets you narrow results into categories like real estate, lodgings, weather and fishing. SearchMe isn't the only visual search engine — rivals include the meta-search site KartOO and newcomer Viewzi (which was still in private beta as of June 2008) — but its clean, intuitive interface sets it apart.
It was ranked as one of the best 50 websites.
The Mountain View, Calif. company with high-profile investors and a warchest of nearly $40 million, including a $12.6 million round in May from Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, Deepfork Capital and Lehman Brothers Venture Capital.
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