If you haven't done so already, you might want to check Searchme.com, a new search engine that's as visually stunning as it's functional.

Searchme moves online searches up a notch or two, particularly for image and video researchers. You enter your keywords, and Searchme's engine will immediately offer various subject categories to help narrow the search.

Click on a section which seems most relevant, and another page opens allowing you to preview the pages you're thinking of surfing.

I did a quick comparison with Google and Yahoo yesterday, looking for an image of a woman reading--a medieval sculpture I remembered seeing in Ennis Friary. Not alone did Searchme produce both the image and useful information in record-quick time, but the search threw up more focussed results.

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