IE8's new Visual Search functionality features Me.dium's Social Search
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Me.dium, an award-winning
social software company, today announced that its Social Search service
(http://me.dium.com/search), the first crowd-powered search engine, will be
integrated into Microsoft's new Windows(R) Internet Explorer(R) 8 Beta 2
(IE8). Me.dium joins eBay, Facebook, and Yahoo as featured partners for
IE8's Beta 2 launch today. Microsoft has chosen Me.dium as a launch partner
because of the unique value it provides to search, and Medium's ability to
help IE8 take the web experience "beyond the page."
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Me.dium's Social Search has a unique ability to harness the activity of
the crowds to let users find information that has relevance based on what
people are actually looking at right now. This enhances Microsoft's IE8
promises to deliver the best browser for what people do every day, making
that experience faster, easier and safer than ever. Searching is the most
commonly performed task on the web. By featuring Me.dium's innovative
search experience, IE8 now provides the user with an entirely new level of
crowd-powered information on top of traditional search, and helps users to
keep up with what's hot, and see recommendations ranked by what people are
actually looking at; reflecting the changing interests of the online
community.
"Because Me.dium's Social Search results are ranked by what people are
actually looking at in the moment, we're able to surface news, reviews,
pictures and videos that are hot right now. And as the zeitgeist of the
online community changes, so do the search results," said Kimball Musk, CEO
of Me.dium. "IE8 provides the perfect platform to keep up with what's hot
using the Me.dium IE8 search service. Type a term into IE8's Search box,
and Me.dium returns a list of results showing the hottest pages online
right now relevant to your query. Me.dium also provides visual indicators
next to each search result, letting you know if the page is increasing or
decreasing in hotness, and how long people tend to spend on each page,
keeping you in the know, without you having to leave your browser."
In addition to adding social ranking to IE8's Search offerings,
Me.dium's integration with IE8 includes the Me.dium What's Hot Webslice and
the Me.dium Discovery Accelerator, weaving crowd-powered relevance
throughout the user's experience. Also, along with the aforementioned
features, the Me.dium Social Toolbar will continue to be a featured
recommendation on Microsoft's new IE Add-Ons website (http://www.ieaddons.com /
http://www.ie8gallery.com):
The Me.dium What's Hot Webslice, first demoed at MIX08, allows users to
keep up with what's hot, right within their IE8 browser. The WebSlice
updates frequently with hot website recommendations influenced by the
surfing behavior of Me.dium's users. Editors at Me.dium add their own
personal touch to publish this guide to the hottest pages online right now.
The Me.dium Discovery Accelerator takes the user "beyond the page" to
discover new content. The user highlights a keyword on any webpage and,
with a simple right-click of the mouse, opens up the Me.dium Discovery
Accelerator -- a small window packed full of socially-driven content
recommendations related to the highlighted term. From there, the user can
click on a link in the window and be taken to a new, related web page.
The Me.dium Social Toolbar Add-on shows off IE's extensibility.
Enabling users to surf the web with friends, "follow" each other to
discover new content, and chat about what they are seeing in real-time; the
Social Toolbar also features deep Facebook integration, so users can send
messages and share content with their Facebook friends as they surf the
web. Additionally, the Social Toolbar offers users content recommendations
related to the pages they are currently browsing.
Me.dium Social Search -- Visual Search: Find the hottest news, reviews,
pictures and videos. Simply install Me.dium's Visual Search service, then
type a term into IE8's Search box -- Me.dium will display a list of results
showing the hottest pages online right now relevant to your query. Me.dium
also provides visual indicators next to each search result, letting you
know if the page is increasing or decreasing in hotness, and how long
people tend to spend on each page
Me.dium launched its alpha version of Social Search in partnership with
BOSS (Build Your Own Search Engine) a new web service platform offered by
Yahoo!. Me.dium's Social Search provides highly differentiated results from
traditional search engines. While other search engines base relevance on
how content links across pages, Me.dium's Social Search shows you the most
popular news, reviews, pictures and videos that other people are actually
looking at in relation to your search term.
Me.dium is a member of the MSFT Start-Up Accelerator Program, which is
designed to help high potential software startups around the globe get
access, guidance and support to accelerate their success on the Microsoft
platform.
About Me.dium
Founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado, Me.dium enables people to find
information together online. Me.dium currently offers both an award-winning
social browsing toolbar that allows people to surf the Web with their
friends, as well as a Social Search engine, a new way to find information
based on what people are surfing right now. Both can be found at
http://me.dium.com
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http://me.dium.com/search
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http://www.ie8gallery.com
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CONTACT:
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