It’s not that often that I review new search engines, but Izea asked me to put together a sponsored post about LeapFish and after checking it out, I have to admit that it is an incredibly useful and fast searching tool which assists users to search Google in real time. Services which run off the Google API and utilize Google to actually deliver a better user experience than Google itself seem to always amaze me, and LeapFish has been added to this list.
LeapFish uses a “click free” search interface which delivers universal search results on the fly as the user types in keywords. Similar to Google Suggest or possibly even Yahoo Search Assist, LeapFish differentiates itself by actually serving search results as the user types, proving itself to be time saving and unearth possible search terms or results which the casual Googler would not normally think of or dive into.
Defaulting with Google Search, LeapFish also offers the ability to search via Yahoo and MSN, but the real experience in the in diversity of the results served themselves.
- A simple search using Google and LeapFish results in instant Google Web Search results followed by Google Blog Search results.
- Then to the right of the page, in almost an Ask.com 3D style fashion, News Items are delivered via Yahoo News, Videos via YouTube and images via various image search engines.
- Dependent on the search, Shopping results are also served, fueled by eBay and Amazon.com (via affiliate partnerships I presume) and then Yahoo Answers results finish out the search items.
LeapFish explains its service as “an all-in-one time saver that eliminates clicks and keystrokes coupled with a nimble search application that allows you to modify search characters and get instantaneous results on-the-fly.”
But their service, being in real time, is best communicated via video, which can be seen here from their YouTube channel :
For more information on LeapFish, be sure to check out their LeapFish blog.
I lost any desire to use LeapFish after being called over 6 times in the last 2 weeks to see if I was interested in purchasing key words. On one particular day I received 3 calls from them even after I told them to remove me from their contact list.
Loren,
Do you also get so exited when you discover a new splog that syndicates your content?
LeapFish agregates the results from Google, Yahoo and MSN- hardly a search engine.
They suck at astroturfing, I may add:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/20/leapfish-launches-another-meta-search-engine-no-one-will-ever-use/
They called several clients of mine trying to solicit thousands of dollars worth of advertising. I am sending every one of my clients to TechCrunch’s post, making sure they see the failed astorturfing.
It’s funny, not even a couple of hours of making my comment, I get a phone call from LeapFish and I ask him to remove me from their list and he indicated he found me on Google, not from a list. He said there was nothing he could do for me and that I will most likely get more phone calls.
Within 15 minutes I received another phone call from LeapFish and this time he said he would add me to their do not call list.
I hope this is the end of phone calls from this company!!!!
I received only one phone call that was very helpful and not aggressive. After some research, within a few days I decided to purchase two keywords. My experience was professional and business like, not like mentioned above. Keep up the good work and lets hope the others can stop the negativity.
So for those of us that had a bad experience with LeapFish should “stop the negativity” because you had a good experience?
Here is a little tidbit about LeapFish and why not to use them for anything..
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/03/the-leapfish-chronicles-admitting-to-click-fraud-is-an-interesting-business-model/
Dulce Ridder is an ass who works for LeapFish.
These guys called me a couple of times and I told the first guy to get lost, and the second guy got my attention, but I still didnt buy. The web site is actually pretty cool, but I think that the management there needs to get a clue
I received a call from their and am considering it. Have you guys had success with this company and what is the long term viability of this company.
I was wondering can google, yahoo, msn stop this site from using their search results, if it gets to be popular.
thanks in advance
I like to use the site. My only complaint is the hard sell they put on you whn they call. They need to revamp their sales approach. It’s not very professional.
But bottom line is, I like to use the product, o otherrs may too.
So, I’m thinking of advertising with them. So hard to know if they’re gonna survive though.
I wish I’d proofread that last entry. ’so others may too’ is what I said.
Any good articles on the linking value of social websites? Any chance Google will ignore those sites from rankings?
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one of my clients called me this morning and asked me about Leapfish. The way she explained to me what they were selling sounded very much like a scam, into to 1,000’s. I told her I would take a look myself and get back. They are selling ad space really and at a 5% renewal rate, humm… Im a sales person but being the new guy and asking for $$ without a lot of great feedback isnt the best approach. In my opinion the engine is super fast and intuitive, but like many other search engines before, people will enjoy for a few , maybe use for video, images or quick search when they remember and it will eventually lose its luster… as for all the sales calls? Consumer hate being battered, they should definitely revise their strategy.. Participating in Social Media, inviting bloggers actually having a twitter account associated with the LeapFish Engine- Google has one, Yahoo has one, MSN has one? A guy named Vincent with 100 followers out of Toronto owns leapfish on twitter. what I find interesting is the CEO Ben Behrouzi dosnt even mention Leapfish in his bio or tweets?