Interesting and proactive search engine – Nuemo

Thanks to SL, who introduced me to this interesting search engine called Nuemo. Spinlet Oy, a Finnish company, is the brain behind this search engine technology, yet if you visit their home page, you don’t find a link to Nuemo – Weird! Also, there is hardly any information about the company, its management team, detailed service offerings and so on. No wonder Nuemo doesn’t show up on Google or Cuil search engines. I believe that they have excluded themselves from being indexed by popular search engines – correct me if ‘m wrong! Even searching Nuemo inside Nuemo does not yield any results!!

UPDATE: Now you can find a link to NUEMO from Spinlet Oy home page. Also Nuemo now shows up on Google. Also, after using this search engine for sometime, looks like it’s a dumb one. The search results are not interesting nor relevant to the keywords. Well, looks like Google is the only solution, and Spinlet should stop this junk called Nuemo.

Well, forget their marketing techniques, let’s take a look at how the search service works..

The home page of Nuemo opens in 1.08 seconds, which is very good! I wouldn’t say that the home page contains minimalistic information, rather they’ve highlighted what their product/service can do:

Just below the bulleted intro section they have three featured search terms represented pictorially. This, I think, is their unique selling proposition as I’m finding this extremely fast and relevant. While searching for information, you may punch in key words, and conventional search engines would throw you just a laundry list of the hundreds of thousands of results. Nuemo goes one step ahead in drawing a pictorial representation of a search term – showing us more ways the search term and meaning may be related to.

For example, if you search for the keyword ‘TRAVEL’ in Nuemo, you not only get a list of travel-related information like air ticket bookings, trip advisor, cheap hotels, etc, but also the following functional picture:

The term with a dark circle (or Halo!?) is the main search term, around which other related search terms/suggestions have been populated. If you click on one of the other related search term, that search item becomes the main term, and yet again, other related keywords are populated based on the current main search term. Well, this goes on like stories inside a story!

Unlike Cuil, even though Nuemo does not list the number of pages currently indexed, I must say that they have pretty much indexed the pages as good as Google or any other search engine you may think of. I think I will play around a little more with this innovative search engine, and include updates, if any. Meanwhile, I would be interested to know of what you think of Nuemo. Give it a try, and let everyone know over here!