LeapFish Integrates Digg, Facebook, Crunchbase and Scribd into Search Results

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Covers LeapFish Tweet-a cause as a virtual Fundraiser

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

Pandia Covers LeapFish as a "Top 5 Social Search Engine

Pandia Search Engine News, a blog specializing in search engine technology, writes that the “new LeapFish has a place among the Top 5 sites for social search”. The post notes that not all social search engines present real-time results, but LeapFish, in addition to having real-time text results, also has real-time results from a number of other sources, including multimedia.

Excerpt from the Article:

“The core functionality of LeapFish is still search, but the search box now has two buttons: ‘Real Time’ and ‘Search Web.’ 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.”

Click here to read the entire Pandia Search Engine News article:

http://www.pandia.com/sew/2250-search-the-real-time-web-with-leapfish.html

LeapFish To Make a Splash in Real Time Search

Silicon Valley Search Startup Plans to Launch Game Changing Real-Time and Multimedia Social Search Engine in the Coming Weeks

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - October 15, 2009) - LeapFish, a respected pioneer in multimedia search, today announced plans to unveil a new multimedia and real-time search, communication and sharing platform. The vastly evolved search engine will fundamentally enhance the way people both search and share information on the Web today.

In recent months, real-time communication has emerged as a major focus for the world's biggest and most innovative Web companies; from Web and search giants like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, to innovators in social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The LeapFish platform will be a new milestone in the consumer Web marketplace.

The near 100 person company announced that the new search platform has been under heavy development in 2009 by its lead engineering team, including developers from Ask.com. Exact details surrounding a feature set or how the new search platform works have not yet been released.

Launching soon, LeapFish will begin presenting previews of its new search platform in late October.

About LeapFish

LeapFish is a new multimedia search engine that captures the variety of the web in a single search platform. LeapFish is founded by Ben Behrouzi, also cofounder of Reply.com. LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

source: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Leapfish-1060384.html

LeapFish Customer Testimonials

See What LeapFish Customers Have to Say about LeapFish



LeapFish Search Engine Buzz : Twitter is ablaze with LeapFish chatter. LeapFish continues its steady growth as more and more adopt the worlds newest search experience.

The buzz is building about LeapFish. Here are just a few testimonials from thousands of customers and the growing base of search users.
LeapFish AdvertiserTestimonials:

Michael M. - Hawaii

“After purchasing keywords in the first couple weeks I received several phone calls, shook hands with 11 people and had many serious buyers and tons of conversions! I not only use LeapFish as my homepage but also have told my friends and family about how easy it is to search and get great permanent advertisement.”

Jason M. - Minnesota

“I purchased 2 keywords and I am very happy with the results i’ve recieved so far and the quick customer support. We are very happy to be a part of the new world’s fastest search engine and are excited at what the future holds for LeapFish”

PATRICIA S - OCALA, FL

“My experience in working with Leapfish.com has been exceptional. Very efficient, knowledgable and helpful. It is a pleasure working with such intelligent professionals who are always available to assist me. Thank You!”

Jan S. - Business Coach

“I started getting hits immediately and as I am the only person advertising for these keywords right now, I am getting all the traffic. It’s a win/win situation. Thanks for the opportunity Leapfish!”

LeapFish Users Tell Us Why They Love LeapFish

As LeapFish grows in popularity we receive an increasing amount of testimonials from LeapFish advertisers as well as the users of the new multimedia search engine.
Here are two unsolicited videos from avid LeapFish users that felt compelled to do a video about their experience with LeapFish from an advertising and search perspective.
Jan Shimano is a LeapFish advertiser and states in the video: “In ½ hour I have used my daily budget for PPC on other search engines”.
In a written testimony we received from Jan she goes on to state “I started getting hits immediately and as I am the only person advertising for these keywords right now, I am getting all the traffic. It’s a win/win situation. Thanks for the opportunity Leapfish!”
Watch Video Testimonial

LeapFish: Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2009.

Search Engine Strategies (SES) is the premier Search Engine Conference hosted in seven major cities worldwide. This year’s event had an incredible turnout with over five thousand attendees including bloggers, journalists, and search marketing professionals.
Key influencers in the media attending Search Engine Strategies were excited to engage and discuss LeapFish. The LeapFish team conducted several interviews with key media outlets including top Search publications including SearchEngineWatch, WebProNews, SEOMoz, Bruce Clay, and SearchEngineGuide.
LeapFish also agreed to partner with WebMasterRadio, the official radio broadcasting network for the conference, as a sponsor of SearchBash taking place in Downtown San Jose at Club Pearl. SearchBash is the highly anticipated evening social event, and this year was one to remember. With well over two thousand attendees LeapFish had a unique opportunity to promote Search in a fun and exciting way.
This year’s Searchbash was set to the theme of the 1951 Disney film classic “Alice in Wonderland” & was soon turned into a LeapFish Wonderland. LeapFish made a huge splash at the event, LeapFish beachballs became a highlight of the event providing airborne entertainment above the dancefloor!
In closing our team at LeapFish would like to extend a thank you to Incisive Media for putting on Search Engine Strategies and WebMasterRadio for creating a Wonderland in the heart of downtown San Jose.

SearchCowboys Q&A with LeapFish CEO Ben Behrouzi

SearchCowboys connected with Ben Behrouzi to discuss the difference between the future of LeapFish and that of traditional meta engines and aggregators. The interview turned into a very informative Q&A session reflecting the developmental trajectory of LeapFish.

Click here to read the entire article & for further details on LeapFish 2.0

LeapFish Looks to Create a 'Lens for the Internet'

LeapFish is Pioneering Search 2.0 by combining the best of the web in one familiar Interface. While Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo race to the "Deep Web," LeapFish aims to pool results from all three engines -- as well as other APIs -- and give it a "multimedia" interface.


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LeapFish goes beyond Google Search

LeapFish goes beyond Google Search. Sites like Wolfram Alpha and LeapFish continue to try and make a better Search

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LeapFish - Search Defined with Ben Behrouzi

Win a Wii & Wii Fit from LeapFish

LeapFish, the Fastest Search Engine on the Planet, is giving you a chance to win a Wii & Wii Fit just by taking LeapFish for a spin!

Simply go , set your homepage as LeapFish and you’ll be given a Raffle for the March 23, 2009 Giveaway!

Here's a short video to give you an idea of how easy it is to enter:

Click here to Enter the Drawing

NBC TechNow Interview of Behnam Behrouzi and LeapFish

Ben Behrouzi of LeapFish Interviewed Live on Fox Business News

The Advancement of the Internet Leaves Search Overlooked.

The assumption in life is people are always looking for more. Yet the actuality is people will continue to settle for less because it is familiar. You can apply that to the world of search as well.

However, every now and then you’ll have a brave soul that decides to step outside of the box and ignore the naysayers. Without that individual Google would cease to exist and Yahoo would still be the most dominant search engine on the web. But my question is where is that next brave soul?

It has been well over a decade since Google and Yahoo began their quest for dominance but where does that leave search now? We have the same exact major search engines competing over Market Share, the same exact place where Search was 10 years ago just with better results and more to pull from. LeapFish is challenging that status quo.

Stoney deGeyter posed a challenging question to the masses when he stated, “If you're a searcher, you have to ask yourself if you really do get superior results from Google or if you just think you do. Even if you do, are the results on the other engines that much inferior that you can't find what you want?”

The answer is no, technology is far too advanced to miss a result now. The results are not inferior they are simply different. But is it wrong to feel confident in a company that proved there was a better way to search the web? No, in fact you should be encouraged because they forced Yahoo, MSN and the rest of the Search world to step up their game.

The Facebooks, Myspaces, YouTubes , etc… would be a mere thought without the advancements major search engines made. Google & Yahoo made it easy for people to access information online. Search engines made it easier to learn, to express, to post, to blog, to bookmark, and to connect. So now the internet is much more than a few powerful Search Engines connecting websites. The internet now has a voice & a pulse. The internet now has communities; the internet now can adapt and change at a rate that most of us can not even conceive.

So where’s the search tool that will search it all, de-fragment data online and consolidate it just like Google did 10 years ago? There are many choices out there from meta search engines to brand new engines that can get you results. Try them and see which one best fits your needs; LeapFish could be the one for you!