I totally missed that searchme, which got a bunch of attention on Techmeme yesterday, was done in Flex with the help of Adobe Consulting. For the most part I’m not a huge fan of ‘visual search engines’. I thought Tafiti was cool, and this look cool (I haven’t played with it yet because I’m not cool enough for an invite…yet) but I like being able to type text in a box and get text. And I’m a big RIA guy.

According to Kara Swisher Google has a similar product in its labs group so maybe there is more to this than I thought. I do like the idea of being able to visualize the page in search. That’s one of the things I like about Technorati. By most accounts the search results are good and there are a couple of innovations. Seqouia, one of the investors, also has money in Mahalo so the company thinks its worth a shot in the ever expanding world of search. If anyone gets to check it out, let me know what you think. There are also some videos for those of us on the outside looking in. I’ll update when I get an invite. Here’s the Crunchbase info for the curious.

[tags]Searchme, Adobe, Flex, Search[/tags]