Searchme Picked to Demo at AT&T Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards at CTIA Wireless 2009
Searchme, the media search engine has been selected by AT&T as one of an exclusive group of technology innovators for the AT&T Fast Pitch Platinum Awards at CTIA Wireless 2009.
This event, a high-tech version of American Idol, is hosted by devCentral, AT&T’s official resource for development, and aims to showcase outstanding innovation in mobile development. The Searchme team takes the stage today and demo Searchme’s breakthrough visual search technology for mobile devices in front of an expert panel of judges.
Searchme is a search engine, designed from the ground up to provide a superior search experience over traditional text-based engines that were built more than ten years ago. In November, Searchme became the first major search engine to launch a user interface created specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch and it quickly became a favorite at the iTunes App Store.
The Searchme app delivers large images of the web pages, videos, music and products right to the smartphone. Searchme makes mobile search considerably faster and easier. Results are presented in a slick, visual format that lets people flip through or expand with a finger, so there is no more waiting for the page to load into the browser. Once the user finds what they are looking for, they simply double tap the screen to open the page. Searchme’s patent pending "category suggest" technology understands each query and suggests appropriate categories as the mobile user types, allowing them to get only the results they want.
In addition to availability on the iPhone through the iTunes AppStore, SearchMe is releasing its application in native implementation on Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android, and Blackberry devices. "We’ve had an amazing response from mobile users to our visual search technology and we look forward to making our case in front of the AT&T panel," said John Galatea, Searchme VP of sales and marketing. "When it comes to mobile search, we’re delivering on the promise of the mobile Web."
Searchme presents on Thursday, April 2 at 2:40 p.m. (Las Vegas Convention Center, Meeting Room N210). Companies will be judged by a panel of experts on innovation and originality, marketability, ease of use and user interface design. Winners receive a share in prize money and the opportunity to go to market as part of the AT&T distribution channel.
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