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By Paula J. Hane. on April 1, 2010 InfoToday NewsBreaks -- While the mainstream media tend to focus on the big three search engines-Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's Bing-and many searchers tend to just use the same search engine (usually Google), there's actually a thriving world of alternative search engines out there that savvy searchers know to exploit. Each has its own niche and some are doing quite well-and that's no April Fooling. (Of course, there are always the ones with great ambitions that launch and then fizzle and die when economic realities set in. But competition is good-it keeps the search engines on their toes.) Some with the best new technologies tend to get acquired by one of the big players. Most of the top web search trainers implore their audiences to expand their horizons and try other search tools, including directories. It's best to keep an arsenal at hand rather than just a single weapon of choice.

Within the last year or so, we've covered the launch of search tools such as Hunch (a "decision engine" that gives recommendations and gets smarter the more you use it) and Wolfram Alpha (a "computational knowledge engine" that uses data sets it has acquired). See the list of links below for our NewsBreak coverage. Here I'll feature some other search tools that have been making the news of late.

LeapFish

First launched in beta in November 2008, metasearch tool LeapFish (www.leapfish.com) now boldly calls itself "an evolved search engine." (See the NewsBreak from January 2009: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/New-Search-Engine-Hopes-to-Leap-Over-the-CompetitionLeapFishcom-52330.asp.) LeapFish is designed to capture the traditional, multimedia, and real-time web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content-the two things users do most online.

LeapFish offers a "click-free" search interface that delivers search results as you type. The LeapFish search experience includes the following features:

• The merger of real time and traditional search allows users to conveniently access the readily available real time web while searching Google, Bing, and Yahoo!.
• Search the variety of the web in one page via Twitter, Digg, YouTube, Facebook, and more.
• Create a personalized lens to the web via customizable homepages with proprietary Twitter and Facebook applications.
• Share as you search on all popular social networking destinations via Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and more.

LeapFish says it expects no less than 20 million searches this year and aims to double 2009's generated revenue of $10 million. In 2009 the company made substantial advancements and innovations to its growing search engine including real time search, deeper search results, personalized homepages, content sharing features, and proprietary Twitter and Facebook applications. The changes have helped grow the engine from an Alexa traffic ranking of 150,000 to 10,000 in less than one year.

"We are the only search platform searching all that users care about in the new web with over fifty providers including Google, Yelp, Twitter, YouTube, Mashable, Topsy, Wikipedia, and many others," says David Bruggeman, vice president of marketing. "The innovations and data integrations from 2009 have set LeapFish apart and are clearly reflected in our Alexa traffic ranking."

LeapFish recently integrated Topsy.com, a search engine that finds the most talked about links on Twitter and organizes them by popularity and influence.

hakia

Pandia calls hakia "one of the few serious alternatives to the big three (which are to become the big two when Yahoo! starts delivering Bing results)." hakia (www.hakia.com) is a semantic or meaning-based search engine. It uses semantic connections of words to concepts rather than relying on keyword matching. It attempts to narrow down search results to just the most credible pages and sites.

hakia recently introduced a new search experience following a "period of silence." Results are now returned in segments, including Web, Galleries, Credible sources, PubMed, News, Blogs, Twitter, Wikipedia, Images, Videos, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Each segment can be minimized or maximized, according to the searcher's preference. While some folks might like the convenience of the broad sweep and categorization, others called the design unfriendly with too much scrolling and too few clues up top. The Galleries are quite interesting, providing basic information about countries, cities, sports, people, animals, diseases and medical information, and much more.

The company also started a new web service called SENSEnews.com focused on real-time information, and offering personalization and visualization tools. The service is designed to help users make sense of emerging information from 30,000+ news sources, blogs, and Twitter. Users can create personalized charts to display news trends, which are called SENSE charts.

hakia has also launched NoBrandSearch.com as "an experiment to compare the core competencies of the search engines in the market... Each time you enter a query, each side of the screen is randomly selected from the search engines in the market. Their brands and special features are screened out. All you have to do is to decide which set of results are better." hakia of course hopes the results will speak for its superior performance.

Try a Directory

Finally, don't forget about an important resource that's been a staple of librarian recommendations for years. ipl2 (www.ipl.org) is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). The site is hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology, and a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science are involved in developing and maintaining the ipl2. Additional directories are listed in WebSearchGuide by Gwen Harris in the next section.

 

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:http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/leapfishtm-launches-free-customizable-homepages-twitter-facebook-apps/

 

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.

You might have heard over the last few months: the Internet is entering what many are referring to as “The Real-Time Web”. In other words, where static pages were all the rage in the 90’s, and blogs, social networks and interconnectivity became popular in the early part of the new millennium, we’re now entering a phase preoccupied with what’s happening now. As in right this minute. One salient example where this played a critical role was in the controversial Iranian presidential election, where Twitterers on the ground were able to get reports out live, without any help from the press.

Of course, like any emerging movements the early days can be a little confusing. Everyone is a content creator and at any given moment, hundreds of thousands of people are updating their Twitter accounts, their MySpace pages or Facebook profiles causing a cacophony. To filter through the noise, tap into what is effectively democratized journalism and allow an orderly Real Time Web to emerge, several companies are getting into “Real Time Search”. Recently Google joined the fray with the display of scrolling live results to a large number of searches. Watch the video we’ve embedded below for more on this. Another company is LeapFish who’ve launched a portal that includes a Live Search section with content from Digg, Twitter and other social networks.

Again, watch their video at the end of the article if you’re interested.

 

So the question is, who will own this space? Google became king of search because they devised an algorithm that did a better job than other search engines at being relevant, and I suspect that whoever manages to organize and filter through the noise will take a lead. Google’s particular algorithm won’t work in this case, at least not with the same parameters simply because of the constantly changing nature of the data to be parsed. Clearly this is all a work in progress but it’s nice to see some healthy competition at this early stage.

source:http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/12/15/will-the-real-time-web-take-off/

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.

I have written about Leapfish a few times before and I wanted to take the time to do a video demonstration showing you why I think Leapfish is one of the best search engines and portals on the web. Leapfish has among the most customizable modular homepage that allows you to build custom news modules at your fingertips, in addition you can have access to your twitter and facebook accounts right on your homepage.

In addition to home page modules and searches that return every category of search you could possibly want, Leapfish also does real time searching now and includes results from Twitter for the keywords you search for. This means not only can you find the latest blog articles, news, video’s and images for whatever you search for, but you can find out who is saying what about that keyword in real time.

Check out my video demonstration on how Leapfish works:

http://www.dragonblogger.com/screencast-demo-of-leapfish-real-time-search/

I personally use Leapfish as my homepage customized with my dragonblogger account, I use it to show the latest Mashable items, technology news, twitter and facebook tweets and sale items at Newegg.com. I think it is a great starting point to open my browser and have instant access to today’s Twitter trends, news articles right at my fingertips and more than one blog post was inspired just by seeing some of the latest headlines on my Leapfish homepage.

Give Leapfish a try, you won’t be sorry that you did.

-Dragon Blogger

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 , there’s 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, let’s 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 “Web results” 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 “related” videos and video channels (on the related topics).

Hover over any video result and watch it play in full…

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, let’s 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 “Add Widgets” (which hides behind “Customize Homepage” 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.

“Liking”

LeapFish offers users to “Like” search results that they find. ‘Liking‘ inserts chosen results into the “User Recommended Results” that then appear in LeapFish Search results for that particular search term.

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

“Social Sharing”

Leapfish has a really advanced social sharing feature which appears once you hover any search result. Click it an you’ll 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 there’s one more thing to say about Leapfish: their non-profit project that grants the wishes of children with life threatening medical conditions “to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy” (more info at www.makewish.org).

 LeapFish and Make-a-Wish Foundation team up with Twitter users to grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland

(PRWEB) November 16, 2009 -- LeapFish has joined forces with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to adopt an ill child’s dream and help make that dream come true. Tweet-a-Cause, a social media fundraising initative, will give Twitter users the power to grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland, one Tweet at a time. LeapFish will donate 5 cents per Tweet to the Make-A-Wish Foundation until $10,000 has been raised and the child and his family can go to Disneyland.

 

Jacob, age 4, has a rare and life-threatening disease that has affected him since birth. He has one big wish in life –- to go to Disneyland with his family. LeapFish and the Make-a-Wish Foundation have joined forces to help him achieve his wish through Twitter. “We are privileged to be able to make a difference in young Jacob’s life by helping his dream come true,” said Ben Behrouzi, CEO of LeapFish. “What better tool than Twitter to get the community involved and allow everyone to share in making a difference for someone,” said Behrouzi.

The Make-a-Wish Foundation is the largest wish-granting organization in the world. The Foundation has granted wishes to more than 174,000 children with life-threatening medical conditions nationwide. Through the Adopt-a-Wish program, a donor, such as LeapFish, can cover the entire cost of a child’s wish. To raise awareness of the Adopt-a-Wish program and to help get the social media community involved in granting an ill child’s wish, LeapFish is sponsoring the Tweet-a-Cause and Make-a-Wish campaign.

The campaign will run from November 16 through November 27, 2009. LeapFish will match each Tweet with 5 cents to a target of $10,000 which will get Jacob and his family to Disneyland.

For more details on the campaign and how to help visit LeapFish.com/MakeAWish

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. Founded by Ben Behrouzi (co-founder of Reply.com), 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.

About Make-A-Wish The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants magical wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich their lives with hope, strength and joy. For more information, visit www.makeawish.org