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		earle on March 12, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SearchMe Launches New Search Engine With Heavy Bac... Dubious benefit. $31M in VC huh? I'm not sure you can't produce something with equally dubious benefit, with the fancy coverflow interface, with the Yahoo Search API and say, a Websense URL categorization database.... in a matter of an hour Also.. how is this going to work for Flash based resources??

xirium on March 12, 2008 [–]

> how is this going to work for Flash based resources??

Thumbnailing Flash is fairly trivial if you take a bitmap from a browser rendering component. Indexing Flash is more of a PITA.

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