LeapFish is a new search engine that aims to combine searching the web with social media. The engine crawls webpages, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and more in the hopes of providing real-time multimedia content. LeapFish also builds in tools to enable sharing of content across various social networks.
The first thing I noticed about leapfish is that it is almost overwhelming in its content. The front page is a portal similar to MSN or Yahoo, featuring news stories, weather, shopping info, etc. When I did a test search, I decided to punch in “Contest Corner” and see what came up. You can do a regular search, which crawls web content, or a “real time” search, which pulls keywords from sources like Twitter – in fact, I saw a few of my own tweets pop up! I think this is actually a really good idea, because you can’t really search for tweets on Google, and I’ve actually wanted to search for my own tweets in the past; there’s been instances where I’ve tweeted out a link to a cool website or something, and then had a hard time finding it again.
The only trouble with all this information packed into one place is that is felt overwhelming to me. I still haven’t yet found a search engine that I liked better than Google for web content, but this does have potential for searching new mediums ala Twitter. As epic as their promotional video is, I don’t know that this is an end-all be-all; however, I will probably use it when I want to find that marzipan cookie recipe I tweeted out six months ago and forgot to bookmark.
Have any of you guys used this website before? What did you think?
very interesting. I’ll have to check this out.
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