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Searchme Launches Shopping Feature in Time for Holidays to Make Online Gift Hunting Fast, Easy and Fun
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Web search innovatorSearchme Inc. has launched Searchme Shopping, a new feature that lets shoppersbrowse items as easily as if they were viewing a print catalogue, but with theease and convenience of comparison pricing and one-click access to individualretailer sites, just in time for Black Friday and the holiday gift rush.
The shopping feature, which can be found at www.searchme.com, usesSearchme's visual search technology to deliver product search results in aseries of pages. Shoppers can flip through the pages just as they would forany Searchme search, but the shopping feature allows them to compare pricesfrom various online retailers and quickly click through to a retail store whenthey are ready to buy.
For example, a shopper looking for a new digital camera might type"digital camera" into the search bar at Searchme Shopping. Not only would shereceive at least a few dozen of the top results for that search, but each pageof results would include a list of online retailers who carry the item, aswell as store ratings, prices and links to each store. A search for other hotholiday gifts, like "Elmo Live" or "Disney Princess" would offer the samekinds of results.
"Online shopping has offered a trusted, convenient alternative to the mallfor a decade, but online search technology hasn't always made shoppingeasier," said Randy Adams, CEO of Searchme. "Searchme's new shopping featureaims to help busy shoppers cross names off their lists without feeling likethey have to visit multiple sites just to find the perfect gift."
Searchme Shopping also allows users to view the results of their searchesby category, and to order their results by price or relevance. So for example,a search for "Elmo" would include both a "plush toys and stuffed animals"category as well as an "audio/video media" category, because "Elmo" is thebrand name of an overhead projector.
In addition to being able to refine their results using categories andprice/relevance filters, shoppers also can easily create stacks of selectedproducts and share them with friends or family. This makes it easy to createvisual wish lists that can be emailed, uploaded to social networking siteslike MySpace and Facebook, or shared via Twitter and blogs.
About Searchme
Searchme is an innovative way to search the Web that uses patented visualsearch and category suggest features to deliver relevant, meaningful resultsfaster, to every kind of Internet user. Searchme was founded in 2005 by RandyAdams and John Holland. The company received initial funding from SequoiaCapital. For logos, images and web/broadcast material, please visitwww.searchme.com/press.
Searchme is a trademark of Searchme Inc. All rights reserved.
SOURCE Searchme Inc.
For example, a shopper looking for a new digital camera might type"digital camera" into the search bar at Searchme Shopping. Not only would shereceive at least a few dozen of the top results for that search, but each pageof results would include a list of online retailers who carry the item, aswell as store ratings, prices and links to each store. A search for other hotholiday gifts, like "Elmo Live" or "Disney Princess" would offer the samekinds of results.
"Online shopping has offered a trusted, convenient alternative to the mallfor a decade, but online search technology hasn't always made shoppingeasier," said Randy Adams, CEO of Searchme. "Searchme's new shopping featureaims to help busy shoppers cross names off their lists without feeling likethey have to visit multiple sites just to find the perfect gift."
Searchme Shopping also allows users to view the results of their searchesby category, and to order their results by price or relevance. So for example,a search for "Elmo" would include both a "plush toys and stuffed animals"category as well as an "audio/video media" category, because "Elmo" is thebrand name of an overhead projector.
In addition to being able to refine their results using categories andprice/relevance filters, shoppers also can easily create stacks of selectedproducts and share them with friends or family. This makes it easy to createvisual wish lists that can be emailed, uploaded to social networking siteslike MySpace and Facebook, or shared via Twitter and blogs.
About Searchme
Searchme is an innovative way to search the Web that uses patented visualsearch and category suggest features to deliver relevant, meaningful resultsfaster, to every kind of Internet user. Searchme was founded in 2005 by RandyAdams and John Holland. The company received initial funding from SequoiaCapital. For logos, images and web/broadcast material, please visitwww.searchme.com/press.
Searchme is a trademark of Searchme Inc. All rights reserved.
SOURCE Searchme Inc.
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