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One of the best things about being a research nut is that I come across the very best, and the very worst, of the Internet. No matter how crappy the day is going, I’m all but guaranteed to come across some sites that really peek my interest.

The other day I noticed a comment left on an Immediate Edge post about a cool search engine site, currently in beta, called Searchme. Basically the site is just what the title says, a visual search engine. You can start typing a keyword and as you do the site begins to show you categories that are related to your query. When you choose a category you then see pictures of web pages that the site thinks are related to your search.

This is really cool site! The Searchme visual search engine leverages the power and ubiquity of Adobe Flash™ software and Adobe Flex. The results pages are displayed in a carousel view that you can thumb through. Whats so nice about this is that you can see the page before you go to it. I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I click a search result on Google or Yahoo and I end up at a site made for Adsense. Frustrating.

Just for fun, I plugged in the search term “lensroll” and I was quickly presented with a picture of the blog here as well as pictures of all the sites that the search engine thinks are related to the term. It seems the search is pretty much right on as most of the pages I viewed have posts that link to Lensroll. If you want to view textual information on the site you can do so by clicking the “little” gray arrow in the center of the page just below the scroll bar and you are then presented with text version of the link.

Although the sites been around awhile (2005 I think) it’s worth sharing. Searchme is an innovative rich Internet application that is helping fundamentally change the Internet search experience. I’m a huge fan of sites push the envelope of whats normal and the site does exactly that. Love it!

Have fun.