Start Date: February 2012
End Date: Unknown
Wikipedia Entry
Volunia was a web search engine (or social search engine) created by Massimo Marchiori. It was launched in beta only for registered power users on February 6, 2012 and went live on June 14, 2012. Volunia, dubbed as "the search engine of the future", was speculated to be based on Hyper Search technology.
Start Date: 2005
End Date: 2009
Wikipedia Entry
SearchMe was a visual search engine based in Mountain View, California. It organized search results as snapshots of web pages — an interface similar to that of the iPhone's and iTunes's album selection. In July 2009, the company lost funding and the search engine went offline.
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