Leapfish Launches
January 16, 2009
LeapFish is a metasearch engine. The company calls its system “a multi dimensional engine.” LeapFish Inc. is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. The company’s metasearch technology uses a proprietary hyper threading technology. The Marketwatch.com story here said:
LeapFish pushes search to 2.0 and states “out with the search button.” LeapFish’s revolutionary new click free search interface gives life to a fast, fluid and dynamic search experience that extracts the variety of data from major online destinations such as Google, YouTube, eBay and others in a single search query. Consolidating a knowledge base of relevancy and variety from major online authorities, LeapFish effectively renders more comprehensive results than those returned by its providers.
The addled geese at Beyond Search find metasearch systems useful. Our favorite–EZ2Find.com–has exited business. Unlike EZ2Find.com, Leapfish uses an uncluttered splash screen. The naked screen of Ixquick.com is more spare, but Leapfish strikes a good balance between point and get started and the Google-type search box of Ixquick.com.
We liked the ability to limit the query to content type. Leapfish has done some work to tame the not-so-good search experience we have encountered on Google’s blogsearch service. The mouse action was a hair trigger when viewing results from a shopping query.
Leapfish is an interesting service, and we will add it to our list of systems to monitor. More information about the company is at http://www.leapfish.com/AboutUs.aspx.
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