Most of us think of visual search, as Google image search, but visual search can be so much more. SearchMe is an search application that I’ve not come across before, because it’s only just become available in Beta for WinMo. In short, it’s a search engine for your mobile phone that selects website’s for results to your search terms. So if I search for”just another mobile monday” the visual results are filtered for the site, Cool.

Now it’s a Beta, optimised for WinMo Pro 6, and it’s finger friendly, you can swipe to view more search results, but as yet it doesn’t support DPad navigation. It’s a big miss to not include keypad navigation of any kind. On the Tilt, the directional keys on the QWERTY keyboard don’t let you navigate through the app either.

Then again SearchMe does provide a rather random search, it also brought up sites that had linked to JAMM as well. That’s landscape mode pictured above, testing the Tilt’s keyboard for functionality.

The app is somehow disjointed, the key pad works for typing, but not for navigation.

Program options are really simple, and self explanatory, very hard to go wrong here. Probably the best feature of SearchMe is it’s ability to collect tags and categories from web sites, and provide you with an internal filter for those.

SearchMe is a different, and novel, mobile search engine, that works. Rather well! I found it surprising, and refreshing, I liked a different approach to a search engine. This is actually the first specialised mobile search engine application that I have tried, or become aware of. What I don’t like at the moment, it doesn’t recognise my default browser, and opens MIE [Mobile Internet Explorer] if I click on a search result page. This is really looking like a great add on for your WinMo device, some things need a bit of work, but I Like it!

SearchMe is available for other phone OS’s, and is now in Beta for Windows Mobile Professional

SearchMe Mobile Home Page