LeapFish

PLEASANTON, Calif., Jan 27, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ---- LeapFish announced today the launch of its personalized homepage, empowering users with a single customizable page that captures all that they care about on the web. From Yahoo News to Mashable to Facebook to US Magazine Celebrity News and many other providers, consumers can now drag and drop their favorite portals and applications in a new easy to use homepage that loads everything in one window.


"Access everything you care about online from one homepage," said LeapFish CEO Ben Behrouzi. "Users can now get their latest news, fully interact with their Twitter and Facebook accounts and share content, from a single easy to use page on the Internet," he said.

The LeapFish homepage acts as a personalized dashboard to the Internet where everyone can get the latest news from the providers they choose, interact with their social networks and share the content they care about at anytime from one homepage. Two of the main features of the customizable homepage include Facebook and Twitter applications, where users can interact with their accounts without having to visit the sites separately.

The LeapFish homepage is equipped with a growing list of portals, applications and tools that users can easily add via a widgets page that currently offers about thirty five different widgets. Some of the homepage widgets currently available include Yahoo News, Celebrity News, Mashable, TechCrunch, Youtube Videos, Facebook and Twitter.

LeapFish plans to release more homepage widgets every month including an up-and-coming FourSquare widget. For more information on customizable LeapFish homepages, visit http://www.leapfish.com

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

The dawn of a new era in search has arrived. To make search relevant for today’s web user, any player hoping to stay relevant in the search space can no longer ignore real-time search. The dominant search players, including Google, Bing, and Yahoo have taken note, each rushing to launch real-time search features and stay in the game.

This month, Google announced that its relevance-ranking search algorithms are now being used to sort through live posts on Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca and, of course, Twitter. Google understands how important it is to be a leader in real-time search if they hope to remain on top of search in 2010.




Following the lead of Google, last week Yahoo added a real-time search function into its search results late. Yahoo said whenever there is a “spike” in interest in a particular topic across the Web, its search algorithms would be able to detect that and would mix relevant tweets about that topic into standard search results. With a partnership with Microsoft’s Bing almost finalized, the two companies will need to face Google and other real-time search players head on for a chance in the next generation of search.

Launched in November, LeapFish’s real-time search engine was at the start of the real-time search trend that has heated up over the last month. Our successful promotional video (below) for LeapFish’s November launch was followed by promotional videos from some of the biggest names (above) on the web marketing real-time search and what it means to our new web.



It is very clear that the quest for relevant sources of real time content will become increasingly sought after. Integrating micro blogging sites such as Twitter is only the beginning, new channels of communication will continue to add relevancy to our search experience online acting as a catalyst for change and innovation.

We are more connected and involved in the evolution and growth of the web than we ever were before. The new web is here and it will not wait, however it will require new tools to interact with the web that you love.

New Real-Time Search Engine Continues Its Development and Integrates Four New Services into Search Results.

PLEASANTON, CA – (December 14th, 2009) – LeapFish, a new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform, announced today the integration of four new services. The search platform now includes results from Digg, Facebook, Crunchbase and Scribd, expanding its reach for consumers on every search.

Perform a topic search and get news results from Digg. Perform a company or person search and see profile results from Facebook and Crunchbase. “LeapFish will continue to integrate more services and valuable content to equip users with a search engine that does an extensive search of the web,” said Ben Behrouzi, LeapFish CEO.

LeapFish’s latest release includes :

• Digg – Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet with over 527 Million Digg recommendations and 14 million submitted stories.

• Facebook – Facebook is the largest social networking user database with over 350 million users worldwide.

• Crunchbase – Crunchbase is a free directory of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit with over 20 million page views each month.

• Scribd - Scribd is the largest social publishing network in the world with over 10 million documents published.

For more information on the recent release, visit http://blog.leapfish.com

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. LeapFish is a privately held, 100-person corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

The San Francisco Chronicle’s technology blog, The Tech Chronicles, describes the recent trend in charity fundraisers fueled by social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. The Chronicle discussed the growing trend of social media for community causes and recognized LeapFish’s recent Tweet-a-Cause campaign that empowered Twitter users with the ability to Tweet a little boys wish to go to Disneyland true.

The article covered the partnership between The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation and LeapFish that raised $10,000 to send a 4-year-old ill boy to Disneyland.

Excerpt from the Article:

Regarding the use of Social Media to promote Charities, ” It only takes a couple of moments a day to change the world…LeapFish, a Pleasanton search engine, has pledged to donate $10,000 if 100,000 Twitter messages are generated.”


Click here to read the article on SFGate.com:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=52391

We have seen a few social as well as real-time search engines previously, and this whole week is all about a new-comer: Leapfish.

In fact , thereâs so much buzz around it that I found it necessary to review the tool here and discuss it with our SEJ community.

Leapfish is a new social and real-time search engine. In their own words:

There is more content, more variety and more services that are all very valuable to us. LeapFish searches the traditional, multimedia and social web and providers results from all over the Internet from major authorities in their respective spaces. Here are some of the database and parts of the web we search; Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Image Authorities, Blog Authorities, Wikipedia, Yelp, Digg, CyberHomes, Yahoo Answers, Amazon and many others from a growing list of providers.

First, letâs see how it works for a newcomer:

Social, Real-Time and Multimedia Search
1. Go ahead and search something; you will be first taken to âWeb resultsâ containing:

Google news results;
Google / Yahoo / Bing general search results;
Youtube results;
Twitter search results;
Blog search results;
Image search results (via Google or Flickr);
Relevant Digg submissions;
wikiHow results;
Yahoo Answers search results;
Related products (from Amazon or eBay);
Relevant web documents (ia Scribd).



Now you can click through the tabs to see more of each search type:

Real-Time Search: Digg results, Twitter search, Twitter trending topics, Youtube videos and Flickr images.

Video Search: videos relevant to the provided search terms as well ârelatedâ videos and video channels (on the related topics).

Hover over any video result and watch it play in fullâ¦

Image Search: Related images and videos;

Hover over any image result and watch the full image load on your screen without having to leave the page.

News: More news search results (with most recent Twitter and blog updates);

Blogs: More blog search results (with most recent Twitter updates);

Shopping: More results aggregated from Amazon and eBay.

More search goodies:

While-you-type search suggestions;
Related searches:



Quick search tip: if you plan to use Leapfish on a regular basis, consider adding their search plugin:



Now, letâs dig deeper to see which other features the site has to offer.

Customized Homepage
Not only the site allows to change background color to adjust it to your eyes, you will also be able to add / remove widgets from your personal home page.

To access the feature you will need to join the site or login via Facebook. After logging in, click âAdd Widgetsâ (which hides behind âCustomize Homepageâ link in the top right corner).



The widgets to add / remove are available in various categories such as:

Social (Facebook, Twitter);
Traditional news (CNN, Wired);
Entertainment (celebrity news);
Blogs (Mashable, TechCrunch);
Sports (Yahoo sports);
Travel (Smarter Travel);
Videos (Hulu, Youtube);
Comedy (theOnion);
Business and Economy (Financial news, stock market summery);
Tools (weather, dictionary and thesaurus, Linkedin Search, Wikipedia);
Sopping (Daily Deal);
Misc (WikiHow, Yelp, Nasa).
You can also re-arrange the widgets to enhance your web experience.

âLikingâ
LeapFish offers users to âLikeâ search results that they find. âLikingâ inserts chosen results into the âUser Recommended Resultsâ that then appear in LeapFish Search results for that particular search term.

You can find this function as a âLikeâ button that appears as you hover over links and results.



âSocial Sharingâ
Leapfish has a really advanced social sharing feature which appears once you hover any search result. Click it an youâll be able to share the link via Twitter, Facebook, Mixx, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Delicious, etc:



Social Profiles
Leapfish allows to create a detailed personal profile aggregating most important streams of your web life:

Compose a short about yourself part and interests;
Provide your Twitter username to show you most recent Tweets;
Add your sites;
Provide your Youtube username to show your most recent videos;
Provide your Flickr username to show your most recent images;
Provide your blog RSS feed to show your most recent posts:


Make a Wish


And thereâs one more thing to say about Leapfish: their non-profit project that grants the wishes of children with life threatening medical conditions âto enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joyâ (more info at www.makewish.org).

Please go ahead and support the cause by tweeting now:

If you want to help Jacob’s wish come true visit : LeapFish.com/MakeAWish

LeapFish.com/MakeAWishhttp://www.leapfish.com/makeawish/