My OperaSearch the Real Time Web with LeapFish
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:31:23 PM
Would you have more value for SEO based search results or human conversation driven results? If you knew that there were 6 conversations that provided a fantastic account of a design firm you were considering would that be more valuable to you than the top 3 links on your current search engine results?
Ben Behrouzi, Founder and CEO of LeapFish asks these questions in a recent blogpost.
LeapFish used to be a regular meta search engine. Last week, the new LeapFish was unveiled: A multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform.
How it works
The core functionality of LeapFish is still search, but the search box now has two buttons: “Real Time” and “Search Web”. The second button gives you standard search engine results. If your query has news relevance, news results will top the list of results. Google is default search engine, but you can easily toggle between Google, Bing and Yahoo.
The “Real Time” button leads to a mosaic of real time results: News, trending topics, relevant top stories on Digg, fresh tweets and video results. In spite of the large amount of information, the search results are easy to navigate.
Each item in the search results can be shared. When you point your mouse to a particular item, “Share” and “Like” buttons appear. Clicking the “Like” button will give input to LeapFish’s ranking algorithm. The “Share” button lets you post the item to Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Reddit, Delicious, Technorati, Yahoo Buzz and Kaboodle.
In addition to the search features, the new LeapFish lets you personalize the home page. If you sign up for a LeapFish account, you can sign in to Facebook and Twitter to monitor the activity and post updates from the LeapFish home page. You can also add news sources and widgets like dictionary and thesaurus.
Is it any good?
I recently tested a lot of real time search engines for the article Top 5 sites for social search. The new LeapFish would have had a place among them — it is a well designed and useful search tool.
Not all social search engines present real time results. LeapFish has real time results from a large number of sources, including multimedia. The results are relevant and easy to navigate.
The home page that can be personalized is a nice touch. But at the moment, the number of widgets available does not impress me. And why isn’t there an option to add RSS?
The two buttons are likely to confuse users. I wish the regular search results could have been integrated with the real time results somehow. Or the “Search Web” option could be eliminated altogether. The new LeapFish is a real time search engine and might be better off leaving standard web search to others.
Here is a not entirely hype free intro to the new LeapFish:
source:http://www.pandia.com/sew/2250-search-the-real-time-web-with-leapfish.html
Ben Behrouzi, Founder and CEO of LeapFish asks these questions in a recent blogpost.
LeapFish used to be a regular meta search engine. Last week, the new LeapFish was unveiled: A multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform.
How it works
The core functionality of LeapFish is still search, but the search box now has two buttons: “Real Time” and “Search Web”. The second button gives you standard search engine results. If your query has news relevance, news results will top the list of results. Google is default search engine, but you can easily toggle between Google, Bing and Yahoo.
The “Real Time” button leads to a mosaic of real time results: News, trending topics, relevant top stories on Digg, fresh tweets and video results. In spite of the large amount of information, the search results are easy to navigate.
Each item in the search results can be shared. When you point your mouse to a particular item, “Share” and “Like” buttons appear. Clicking the “Like” button will give input to LeapFish’s ranking algorithm. The “Share” button lets you post the item to Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Reddit, Delicious, Technorati, Yahoo Buzz and Kaboodle.
In addition to the search features, the new LeapFish lets you personalize the home page. If you sign up for a LeapFish account, you can sign in to Facebook and Twitter to monitor the activity and post updates from the LeapFish home page. You can also add news sources and widgets like dictionary and thesaurus.
Is it any good?
I recently tested a lot of real time search engines for the article Top 5 sites for social search. The new LeapFish would have had a place among them — it is a well designed and useful search tool.
Not all social search engines present real time results. LeapFish has real time results from a large number of sources, including multimedia. The results are relevant and easy to navigate.
The home page that can be personalized is a nice touch. But at the moment, the number of widgets available does not impress me. And why isn’t there an option to add RSS?
The two buttons are likely to confuse users. I wish the regular search results could have been integrated with the real time results somehow. Or the “Search Web” option could be eliminated altogether. The new LeapFish is a real time search engine and might be better off leaving standard web search to others.
Here is a not entirely hype free intro to the new LeapFish:
source:http://www.pandia.com/sew/2250-search-the-real-time-web-with-leapfish.html
