Searchme, a visual Web search service whose utility has been exclusive to static Web page browsing, is now able to deliver both standard link search as well as content found on Flickr and YouTube. Clips can be played back directly within the Searchme environment.

These additions alone are likely to garner good reviews, and rightly so. They are key evolutionary enhancements that make Searchme all the more valuable to the average user whose interest in digital media has increased handily in the last few years. Of course, an expansion in the number of bridges to image and video sources is certainly something for the service’s developers to deliver in the future. But considering the positions of Flickr and YouTube in their respective markets, today’s offerings will likely suffice for many browsers.

Yet that is not all that has improved with Searchme. Another feature has been brought to light as well. The name is Search Stacks, and its function exists across the spectrum of search options. It offers users the option to bookmark anything and everything found on the Web through Searchme in quite elegant, drag-and-drop fashion. Searchme’s video demonstration (shown below) of this process exemplifies its use well. Just grab something, and pull it into the top right corner of the page. Choices to organize such saves are available, so if you’re working on several projects, you can divvy accordingly.

Bookmarking for bookmarking’s sake may not be enough to convince the user to linger and build a library of pages, clips, and images. Understandably so. But the ability to share collections by way of email, blog embeds, as well as postings to social networks like Facebook and MySpace, with little effort, is really very intriguing

If reports are to be believed, YouTube may be launching a regional site specific to Indian viewers. Because India is one of the most populated countries and one with a good deal of technological advancements among the consumer class, such a launch could help push the Google-owned video trove into reasonable profitability, a goal which the company’s chief executive highlighted in a television interview today on CNBC as one of his primary focuses at the moment.

According to Nikhil Pahwa at ContentSutra, multiple sources are reporting that the video site will be launching on May 7th there, but no official word has come out of Google as of yet. If the launch does happen, it is expected to be attended by multiple content partners.

It will be interesting to see how YouTube India performs, if it indeed proceeds to launch as predicted. The well-known site may not have an easy time establishing itself as the market is already rife with India-centric competitors such as Videodubba and iShare, but with the clout the brand name carries, it certainly won’t be hurting for watching eyeballs either.