Snap is featured in TIME.com: 50 Coolest Websites of 2006 list this AM! This is a great win for us! We are all very excited here and truely appreciate TIME recognizing the innovation and thought put into our search experience!

According to TIME, this year's choices are shining examples of next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manner of media, from blog posts to video clips.

"How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates-some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. We look at content and design, purpose and execution, style and smarts," Maryanne Buechner writes on TIME.com.

Our CEO Tom McGovern had some comments on this… “We’re thrilled that Snap.com’s unique, visual approach to Web search caught TIME’s editors’ eye. Millions of users have come to rely on Snap.com’s improved search experience for their quest for information on the Web and we’re honored to be included in this year’s list.”

Snap – This new Google-competitor records and analyzes past searches to help determine relevancy, favoring sites where surfers visited most frequently and lingered the longest. Search results are displayed on the left side of the page, while the other side provides a visual preview (which you can choose to view in small, medium or large).

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