January 23, 2009
LeapFish is Fast Meta Searcher
New Search Engine Hopes to Leap Over the Competition—LeapFish.com by Paula J. Hane, Newsbreaks (Jan 22)
Leapfish is a new meta-search engine, offering a choice of Google, Yahoo, or MSN as the main search and combining that with Google blog search, videos, images, news - to name the main ones. It shows results from several media types using the look that Ask.com introduced and abandoned. Leapfish is yet one more (Allplus.com is another) to adopt this design to good effect.
From the review:
"Currently, LeapFish aggregates and organizes content from many portals—YouTube.com videos, blogs, news websites, photos, and more—with a single search on one page. The search box seeks to reassure visitors, "It’s ok, you’re not cheating on Google." It even claims to learn a user’s habits. The company says the "revolutionary new search service uses proprietary hyper-threading technology to communicate with a growing list of over 200 online authorities, currently under development, to deliver more than just relevancy to users." The site says it uses technologies similar to those found at major portals such as DogPile.com."
It is fast - showing results as you type - there is no search box to click on. For web searches, you can use the target search engine's advanced syntax (eg intitle:). It's attractive because of the two-pane display, and at the moment, it is not loaded down with sponsored ads.
Posted by Gwen at January 23, 2009 02:59 PM