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.
source:foxbusinessnews
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
LeapFish featured as an alternative to Google,Bing
Real-time search tools let you search not only the Web but also Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and similar services -- which can prove especially helpful when events such as the Haiti earthquake happen. Here's a look at five tools for effective real-time search.
THU, JANUARY 21, 2010 — CIO — When search engine giants Microsoft Bing and Google announced their moves into the real-time search arena late last year, they joined a number of small startups racing to position themselves ahead of their competitors. Unlike traditional search engines, real-time search sites index updates from social communities such as Twitter, Delicious, Flickr and YouTube, providing you with a peek into the hot discussion topics on the Web.
Many people have turned to real-time search sites to follow events (think Captain Sully landing on the Hudson River or the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti)—these results can often point you to blogs and other new sources of information that traditional search engines may have overlooked. "It essentially allows you to tap material...where there is almost no delay between composition and publishing," says Michael Fleischner, author of SEO Made Simple.
Give these five real-time search sites a try. Many of them have great, intuitive interfaces (like Thoora and Leapfish) and are customizable, to help you find exactly what you're looking for, as it's happening.
1. Collecta
At Collecta, you'll see a list of "what's hot right now"—a list of topics with related articles, tweets, blog posts, photos and comments about popular searches. The ranking of these topics and the related content change in real time, based on popularity. When you enter a search and click "Now!" Collecta gives you a streaming list of real-time posts—everything from comments from readers on news sites to recent tweets and Wordpress blog entries. You also have the option to narrow your search to just blog posts and articles; comments on blog posts; updates from Twitter and microblogging sites Jaiku and Identica; photos from Flickr, TwitPic and yFrog; and videos from YouTube and Ustream.
2. Leapfish
Leapfish lets you search two ways: via real-time search and a more conventional search. The results page will give you top news results, a Wikipedia page (if there is one assigned to the topic), top Web results (you can choose whether Leapfish uses Google, Yahoo or Bing as the search engine), video results, Twitter results, a section for blog results and images, top posts from Digg and a shopping section (where you can view top hits from Amazon or eBay). Leapfish also lets you filter results by Web-only, real time, videos, images, news, blogs and shopping.
3. OneRiot
You can sort your search results two ways with OneRiot: "Realtime" and "Pulse." Searching Realtime will yield results that reflect the most recently shared content. If you choose Pulse, you'll find the most "socially valued" content related to your search—this ranking takes into account how many times it's been shared on various social sites and how often it's shared, among other factors.
Your search results page will list a number of hits, and each one will denote when the piece of content was last shared, how many times it's been shared, where the piece of content was originally first shared from (i.e. from Digg, Twitter, etc.) and the name of the user that first shared it.
4. Scoopler
Scoopler aggregates and organizes content in real time by indexing updates from news sources and social sites such as Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more.
The results page for your Scoopler search is divided into two columns: "popular shares"—hits that include videos, images and links (you can also sort the results by these three categories); and "live posts"—a selection of mentions from Twitter, Delicious, Digg and more that update in real time.
One cool feature is the "peek" function that appears when you hover your mouse over a particular search result. Clicking it allows you to preview the website (without leaving Scoopler). Close the box to return to your Scoopler search results.
5. Thoora
Thoora explains that it takes the traditional approach to online news (events create news, which yield blog posts that create buzz around the topic) and inverts it: Thoora identifies what's attracting the most buzz by indexing the blogosphere to determine which mainstream news stories attract the most interest.
You'll see that Thoora's search results page is broken into three panes: one with search results from the Web—generally with a main news story and supplemental blog posts; a "search stats" box that displays a timeline of your topic's popularity and breaks down the categories with the most search hits; and a box with relevant tweets about your search.
Thoora has a number of ways you can customize your search (such as by category or top stories of today/this week/this month). You can also browse top stories; by clicking on a story, you're given the option of three "views"—a tabbed page with just blogs, just news and a tab where you can discuss with others your thoughts related to the subject. This page also displays the number of news stories, blogs, tweets per hour and comments related to the topic.
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/521064/Real_Time_Search_5_Alternatives_to_Google_Bing?page=1&taxonomyId=3119
THU, JANUARY 21, 2010 — CIO — When search engine giants Microsoft Bing and Google announced their moves into the real-time search arena late last year, they joined a number of small startups racing to position themselves ahead of their competitors. Unlike traditional search engines, real-time search sites index updates from social communities such as Twitter, Delicious, Flickr and YouTube, providing you with a peek into the hot discussion topics on the Web.
Many people have turned to real-time search sites to follow events (think Captain Sully landing on the Hudson River or the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti)—these results can often point you to blogs and other new sources of information that traditional search engines may have overlooked. "It essentially allows you to tap material...where there is almost no delay between composition and publishing," says Michael Fleischner, author of SEO Made Simple.
Give these five real-time search sites a try. Many of them have great, intuitive interfaces (like Thoora and Leapfish) and are customizable, to help you find exactly what you're looking for, as it's happening.
1. Collecta
At Collecta, you'll see a list of "what's hot right now"—a list of topics with related articles, tweets, blog posts, photos and comments about popular searches. The ranking of these topics and the related content change in real time, based on popularity. When you enter a search and click "Now!" Collecta gives you a streaming list of real-time posts—everything from comments from readers on news sites to recent tweets and Wordpress blog entries. You also have the option to narrow your search to just blog posts and articles; comments on blog posts; updates from Twitter and microblogging sites Jaiku and Identica; photos from Flickr, TwitPic and yFrog; and videos from YouTube and Ustream.
2. Leapfish
Leapfish lets you search two ways: via real-time search and a more conventional search. The results page will give you top news results, a Wikipedia page (if there is one assigned to the topic), top Web results (you can choose whether Leapfish uses Google, Yahoo or Bing as the search engine), video results, Twitter results, a section for blog results and images, top posts from Digg and a shopping section (where you can view top hits from Amazon or eBay). Leapfish also lets you filter results by Web-only, real time, videos, images, news, blogs and shopping.
3. OneRiot
You can sort your search results two ways with OneRiot: "Realtime" and "Pulse." Searching Realtime will yield results that reflect the most recently shared content. If you choose Pulse, you'll find the most "socially valued" content related to your search—this ranking takes into account how many times it's been shared on various social sites and how often it's shared, among other factors.
Your search results page will list a number of hits, and each one will denote when the piece of content was last shared, how many times it's been shared, where the piece of content was originally first shared from (i.e. from Digg, Twitter, etc.) and the name of the user that first shared it.
4. Scoopler
Scoopler aggregates and organizes content in real time by indexing updates from news sources and social sites such as Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more.
The results page for your Scoopler search is divided into two columns: "popular shares"—hits that include videos, images and links (you can also sort the results by these three categories); and "live posts"—a selection of mentions from Twitter, Delicious, Digg and more that update in real time.
One cool feature is the "peek" function that appears when you hover your mouse over a particular search result. Clicking it allows you to preview the website (without leaving Scoopler). Close the box to return to your Scoopler search results.
5. Thoora
Thoora explains that it takes the traditional approach to online news (events create news, which yield blog posts that create buzz around the topic) and inverts it: Thoora identifies what's attracting the most buzz by indexing the blogosphere to determine which mainstream news stories attract the most interest.
You'll see that Thoora's search results page is broken into three panes: one with search results from the Web—generally with a main news story and supplemental blog posts; a "search stats" box that displays a timeline of your topic's popularity and breaks down the categories with the most search hits; and a box with relevant tweets about your search.
Thoora has a number of ways you can customize your search (such as by category or top stories of today/this week/this month). You can also browse top stories; by clicking on a story, you're given the option of three "views"—a tabbed page with just blogs, just news and a tab where you can discuss with others your thoughts related to the subject. This page also displays the number of news stories, blogs, tweets per hour and comments related to the topic.
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/521064/Real_Time_Search_5_Alternatives_to_Google_Bing?page=1&taxonomyId=3119
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Searching 2009: A Look Back at a Year in Search Innovation
It took a decade but the search industry is finally adapting to the new web and 2009 was a year of innovation revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the web. The web that once was just a bunch of static websites created by those who knew how to code is now alive with real-time, multimedia content, and it needs a search engine to handle that reality. Driving the innovation is a strong showing in both search usage and online advertising. Today search engines handle 100 billion queries a month worldwide and advertisers have spent $13 billion on search marketing in 2009. Here’s a look back at search’s evolution in the last year ramping up to the new decade.
Real-time content changed everything. Twitter gave everyone with a computer or mobile device the power to update the world on what’s happening now in 140 characters or less. While the information produced by real-time user output alone looked like a big mess of useful and useless information, search engineers started to realize that creating algorithms to sort what’s useful in micro-blogging would be the next big thing in search.
By the end of 2009, every major search firm from Google to Microsoft and Yahoo (Bing) to LeapFish had real-time technology in place. LeapFish took this one step further by allowing users to connect to popular social media websites including facebook and twitter, enabling users to search a single source that encapsulates up-to-the -minute headlines from the most popular sites on the Internet, including breaking news, videos and conversations via a media rich real-time search experience.
The second, and perhaps biggest trend in search of 2009, was that search engineers realized “ten blue links” wasn’t cutting it anymore. The search experience was vastly behind the user experience elsewhere on the Web. With new content being added by the second, it became imperative for search to reflect the diversity and relevancy of content available. Videos, photos, blog posts, real-time opinions, news, audio, social graphs and web applications all belonged in search.
LeapFish CEO Ben Behrouzi saw this early on, telling Media Post earlier this year that ,”This is a new Internet, much different than the days when the original search engines were developed,” Behrouzi says. “The days of 1996 and 1997, when we captured the Internet with 10 blue links, are behind us. “LeapFish released its “Living Web” innovative Real-Time Social Search engine in November which offers users a multimedia search experience.
In 2009, search rivalries turned into partnerships and the popularity of search engines got a shakeup. In July, Bing swallowed Yahoo search, giving Yahoo the ability to focus its efforts outside of search and for Microsoft to be the search breadwinner in the newlywed’s battle against Google. The LeapFish Alexa rank has climbed steadily since the company’s launch in November of 2008, with Alexa’s Domestic Ranking in the US indicating that the company has passed other top search engines such as Cuil.com, MetaCrawler and many more. The site’s ranking continues on it’s growth trajectory, now at the 11,186 spot on Alexa, up hundreds in rank over the past year.
What will 2010 hold for search? Look for further innovation in multimedia and real-time from LeapFish. While 2009 turned on search’s extreme makeover, the innovation in search is far from over.
Real Time Search: Google,Yahoo, Bing, LeapFish
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.
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.
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