Edited sentence: Adams was inspired to start this search engine when his 5-year-old son was having difficulty reading.He hoped to create a search engine that "would improve the experience of finding information online".In April 2008, the company became public.In March 2008, the site was launched in beta status.Of its 45 employees, SearchMe plans to dismiss 35.On July 24, 2009, SearchMe went offline due to financial troubles, such as maintaining the servers.SearchMe now redirects to Google.SearchMe was founded in March 2005 by Randy Adams and John Holland.Sequoia Capital spent millions of dollars to fund SearchMe during the website's opening years.The company had 1.8 million visitors in March 2009, but by May of the same year, the number of visitors decreased to 600,000.The company will now concentrate on the market of broadband TV