Oliver the photographer

March 25, 2008 1 Comment

Oliver horsing around

Oliver has been taking an interest in my camera of late which is great but I do catch myself wincing a bit when he slings it over his shoulder. Anyway he took this shot at Collingwood Children’s Farm over the easter long weekend which I thought was a nice one.

Searchme – the new kid on the block?

March 12, 2008

This new search engine Searchme looks very impressive:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZSpjXEvy1I

I particularly like:

  1. The way you can filter results for words with multiple meanings – like when I search for “mercury� do I mean the car, planet or element?,
  2. Having the searched for term highlighted in the screen grab, and
  3. The way you can choose which way you browse; visually, traditionally or somewhere in between.

The real proof will be in the relevance of the results I guess. I’ve applied for the private beta so will give it a test soon I hope :)

I’m very curious to see how uptake goes or if they get bought out by one of the big guys.