Google did not buy searchme.com. Yesterday, I visited that page and found this;
This information was kindly confirmed via email by Mr. John Galatea who was the VP of Sales and Marketing. They were simply redirecting to Google.com when they closed the company.
They are selling the IP, (Intellectual property) code, patent, data, domain and trademarks. Basically the entire search engine. They also have a skeleton crew of engineers who can assist in any transfers of knowledge.
Do visit the page, watch the youtube video and download the pdf with the detailed information of the IP
Anybody interested?, Microsoft Bing, Google, Yahoo, Ask, are you listening?