As I alluded to in yesterday’s post, our beta testers are giving us tons of excellent feedback, including hundreds of feature suggestions. Thank you so much for all your great ideas!

I thought it would be fun to post the Top 5 most popular feature requests. Here they are, in Letterman order:

5. Image Search. Obviously a no-brainer for visual search, and we’re working on it. (Hint: We already download all those images anyway, right?!) And wouldn’t it be cool with photo communities? Stay tuned.

4. Magnifying Lens. This one caught me by surprise. Our images are big enough to display headlines, images and brands, but due to physical screen size and resolution, you just can’t read the text. (Yet!) So a lot of folks suggested that we create a magnifying lens that magnifies the pages. There are lots of ways this could implemented, but we want to keep it really simple. Let us know how you’d do it - leave us a comment!

3. Numbered Results. Visual search is truly a different paradigm, and we don’t have plans to number results as a default option. But so many people requested this feature that I think it would make a great option in our settings. I’m definitely passing this one on to our user experience team!

2. International. Planet Earth is hungry for Searchme! We’ve had gazillions of inquiries about when Searchme would be available in specific languages and nations. We are so flattered and so eager to bring Searchme to the world. We haven’t announced specifics, but we are definitely moving forward on several international initiatives. Hang in there, international users are very important to us!

1. Scroll Wheel/Trackpad Support. Man, you guys are speed demons, aren’t you? This was by far the biggest feature request that we haven’t implemented yet. We understand your need for speed: It’s super fun to watch those pages whiz by! So hang on, we’re working on it, and it will be cool. By the way, trackpad support sounds an awful lot like “touch”, doesn’t it?

Thanks so much for the ideas, and keep up the great feedback!

From the Blogosphere

Whenever we see an interesting blog post about us, we’ll post it here, in our “From the Blogosphere” section.

SearchMe Gets an “A” for Innovation, Even If That Innovation Was Obvious

Over at bigoak blog, Will Paoletto is more impressed with our categorization than our visual display of results. Personally, I like how we show results, but it warms my heart to see him looking under the hood at our category feature. Thanks for giving us some of your cycles, Will!

If you’ve got a blog, write about us - we may well post it here!

Thanks!

John