Ajax is overrated, and I hope by now it's just a new name for something which has existed for ages which has now made it to mainstream. That aside there are still some pretty cool uses for it, such as what can be seen in Google Mail, Flickr, and of course Facebook and many other sites. Searchme uses Ajax to put a new twist on the way people search for sites they want. Historically we've always found sites from a list of titles and descriptions that result from what we search for. Since then the only major change in search we've seen is the ability to filter by content type such as Web, Images, Products, etc.

Searchme as you've probably guessed, does something different. Once you start typing into it's search box it replaces the beta button with a list of options to narrow the search down by which is based on the context of the results found. For example when searching for "New Earth Online", it produced:

• Stocks
• Global Warming
• Christianity
• Astronomy
• Non-fiction
• Distance Learning
• Online Games
• Basket Ball
• Weather
• Music

I'm not sure I'd really clash this site as any of those, so I decided to go for the "Search All" option. This then produces a "CoverFlow" like view previewing each of the results (I think this is limited to 10 though) which you can scroll through. There's also a "grip" like bar at the bottom which lets you view them as text results. The results aren't great, and the interface isn't all that practical, but it is quite an interesting concept.