Leapfish A Fast And Creative Way to Search Other Search Engines

21 January, 2009 - 07:10 AM - 8 Comments

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When I took a look at LeapFish I was immediately liking the feel of a customizable search home page, where you had the latest youtube video’s, news topics, random tips and weather for your zip code right on your search engine home page.

It was then that I started typing in my name “dragonblogger” into the LeapFish search bar and making sure the google engine was selected.

Unlike any other search engine I have tried you don’t even have to hit enter or click submit it will automatically search and filter as you type. So when I typed my name dragonblogger a list of the top google sites returned with my entries, but even more than that. It has sections of different search media types, and I can see my dragonblogger youtube video in the video section right away.

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LeapFish was lightning fast when doing searches and there was absolutely no delay, in fact since I didn’t have to click submit or enter the searches would be considered even faster than google if I had to click submit. The fact that it shows images and video on the same page without having to click images, video you can see more results with less clicking throught tabs to find what you are looking for, or see something that catches your eye.

Leapfish is still in Beta, and there is the LeapFish Blog to talk about the search engine, the blog also talks about internet advertising and owning keywords, adsense and other business marketing information. Leapfish also displays a job section for people looking to work for the company.

I can honestly tell you I was so impressed by my initial testing and investigation of leapfish that I have decided to make it my default search engine and my home page right now and see how well it holds up against my google only search engine. I ask anyone who does searches to give leapfish a try and let me know if you like it and what you think of the search engine known as Leapfish.

Here is some video showing the leapfish application you may want to check out:

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Written by Justin Germino (1518 Articles Published)

Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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TechCrunch Fan

Sorry Dragonblogger, I had no intention to stray away from the topic. In your post you are deceiving your readers by calling LeapFish a search engine. A meta search aggregator maybe, but not a search engine.

"Search as you type" technology was in the work at Google long before LeapFish launched:

http://code.google.com/p/search-as-you-type/

Patent pending my ass. No offense, Dragonblogger, but I hope you do more research before you accept next paid opportunity from Izea.

As far as Judith goes, is this her IP 99.11.231.38 ? If so, this is the IP LeapFish uses to astroturf all over places. Good day sir. And no I will not be offended if you don't approve this comment.

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dragonblogger

You are right that Leapfish is not an independent search engine, my blog title states "Leapfish A Fast And Creative Way to Search Other Search Engines" but I do actually say in my blog post that I use leapfish as my "Default Search Engine" and I should have said my homepage, or default page for searching to be technically accurate. Regardless of whether you have issues with leapfish patents, not being a real search engine...etc. It does a good job of compiling information so you have some videos, weather, news, and search box right on your home page. Most average users, this is the only features they will care about, and these are the features which work well and make it nice to have as a home page.

Judith ;) - or shall I call you Ben?

Get over yourself and if you really want LeapFish to succeed fire all the telemarketers and spend that money on good engineers so they can develop a product that will promote itself. You may argue differently but the telemarketers were what really killed your former startup - ePerks.

Get over yourself Ben, you will never be another Steve Jobs unless you change.

I have no interest in the back and forth between two users on this blog, you can use a forum for that. TechCrunch Fan, you made your statement with a link for others to read if they are interested, feel free to comment if you have any new or useful information to share about this article. I will start rejecting comments that don't address the blog post or relate to the article directly.

Judith

Dragonblogger - this TechCrunch Fan might be the same guy who has tried to get my personal information on twitter. I've been following the M.O. of what has been going on & it doesn't add up. I did a tweet about Leapfish and then I get contacted via some anonymous email with the same links on your blog. I've been watching & it's no mystery what's happening so be careful.

Right, I saw the email and it looks like it definitely is dislike, but the techcrunch article it pointed to was legit and was interesting to read. As I mentioned in my review of Leapfish, I use it as my default search engine, sure I could use iGoogle or something, but that is so weighty in comparison to just having leapfish as my default home page. I have no interest at this time in engaging in an affiliate program, my site's are too small, and I don't have advertising budget for purchasing keywords.

TechCrunch about LeapFish:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/03/the-leapfish-...

Very interesting article and lots of interesting comments, thanks for sharing. I was looking at it from a search engine standpoint, I like the features all on your homepage and clean layout.