If you’re not entirely enthralled with Cuil, the new search engine that Michael just reviewed, you might give Searchme a try. What a fun search engine this is!

Searchme presents results visually and offers visual cues to refine your search. For example, my test search on primary sources included filters for libraries, history, us government and others. I really like how the web pages of the results display and that I can use the horizontal scroll bar to quickly “page” through results. Below the visual results is another option to view the results in a text format. One neat feature is seeing my search terms highlighted in the web pages results. I want to underscore how refreshing this approach to viewing results is, it’s so much more engaging than the typical static presentation.

Another notable feature is searchme’s concept of “Stacks”. Stacks are essentially folders containing your search results. I think it’s pretty cool that I can email, view or share my stack. If I want to add a site, I can do so as well. Now that I think about it, this just might beat del.icio.us (gasp!) because honestly I sure would like some more visual cues than what del.icio.us offers when reviewing saved sites. Of course del.icio.us’ focus is different.

When you go to searchme you might be presented with a black or Night Theme instead of my preference of the light blue Day. (I get enough enough dark skies here in Oregon.

For my parting shot, I will share that I was happy with the relevancy of the results I got from the several searches I tried. I didn’t feel that I needed to weed through numerous irrelevant content. If searchme didn’t do a good job with ranking results, it’d be just another startup, but with the combination of solid hits and good looks, searchme may stick around.  Good results plus a fun display means I’ll be back.