yeah ok i'm following along with you. please tell more. get specific.
oh yeah. back when searching was fun….
it peaked in my opinion in 2009 with searchme which was the most amazing search engine. ran in flash and showed pics of the returned pages in a carousel like way. they callled it visual search. Killed it in very suspicious circumstances claiming lack of users to ppl not actually clicking on links cuz you could read your search in the returned image of the page sometimes…. i tried to dig into it but the archive org has strangely deleted the pages where the most discussion was had about the engine.
A site that used to go by the name downloadsquad. they had claimed it was made by some guy in his garage and he was now going to concentrate on making his interface into set top boxes.
All fucken bullshit, it was better than google and i used it till it was killed.