The Web has evolved.  It used to be a place where people came to just search for simple information.  Now it’s a place where people come to also share information.  Information today that is multi-media and more complex.  Information today that is real-time and social – recommended by people who know, and people you know.  I refer to this new place as “The Living Web” and recently our team at LeapFish debuted the web’s new search engine made to navigate this new living web.  You can find the press release here :  LeapFish Unveils Real-Time Social Search Engine that Captures the Living Web

VIDEO: LeapFish - Living the Web

Although there are many ways to search and share information, the current experience is fragmented, ineffective, and ultimately inefficient.  On the search side, there are a growing number of disconnected sites for traditional search, niche interests, audio, video, imagery and more.  On the sharing side, there is a universe of segregated social networks, blogs, real-time content, multi-media portals and more.  This growing disconnection and segregation is the challenge that LeapFish has embraced.  By providing a single, connected, multi-media experience for both searching and sharing traditional and real-time content, the new web will be easier to find and easier to share.  Take a look at this video that sums up the challenge that the web and consumers face today.

VIDEO: LeapFish - How it Works

LeapFish benefits everyone online.  Existing portals and services will benefit from a new found search integration that offers them more user engagement and stage time.  Consumers will benefit with access to more of the information the new web has to offer, that was previously tucked away in pages 5, 6, etc of traditional engines.   But most of all, it benefits you the consumer, those living the web by searching and sharing the freshest, most relevant and most interesting content available anywhere.  Take a look at this video to learn more about how the new web is being brought in to one place with LeapFish.

You’ve evolved, the web has evolved, and LeapFish believes its time the search experience evolves too.

Here are four ways LeapFish has helped evolve search :

Real-Time Search Engine : A fresh multi-media real-time search engine capturing results from all containers of real-time content (e.g., Twitter,YouTube, Twitpic, Flickr).

Searching and Sharing : Easy and convenient sharing features empower users to merge traditional content into the social and real-time Web as they search and find content anywhere online (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Digg).

Variety of the Web : Delivering rich multi-media content from the deep and wide new Web via integration of leading authorities in website aggregation, videos, images, news, blogs, tweets and much more on every search query (e.g., YouTube, CNN, Twitter).

Personal Internet Dashboard :  Technically advanced customizable personal homepage allowing consumers to build their own dashboard to the Internet by adding multiple news feeds, blogs, applications, tools and more (e.g., Facebook Application, Twitter Application, Mashable Feed)

With all the publicity around WolframAlpha’s engine there has been a lot of buzz in the search space around what the next successful search engine will look like. It was great to get some coverage today from ChannelWeb as they covered WolframAlpha, LeapFish and the Search space.

Here is a snippet from the post :

“With all the publicity recently about Wolfram Alpha, the CRN Test Center came across the relatively new Web site of a search aggregator called LeapFish. Wolfram Alpha is, to use its own term, a computational knowledge engine, which actually bases the results strictly from its own internal knowledge base — no searching of the Web at all. Conversely, LeapFish uses hyper-threading to communicate with multiple search engines simultaneously, in real-time.”

You can find the rest of the article here : ChannelWeb on LeapFish

LeapFish received a great post as part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series last week.  The post was written by Ben Parr, who highlights some of our innovative new search features including the No-Click Search. 

Here are some excerpts from the article :

“Genius Idea:  When you’re performing a Google search, you are displayed information in a simple and clean interface. However, usually it’s just search results. Occasionally it will show you image results or news results. Many times though, you want to see everything at once – images, videos, news, and more. Additionally, why should you have to type in the entire word “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” to see your search results. Isn’t Google smart enough to detect and load what you’re looking with just the first few letters?…These are some of the many problems that LeapFish attempts to solve with its fast and comprehensive search interface. ”

“Every letter you type reloads the search results to match the keywords. And don’t worry about load times- it does this at lightning speeds. So instead of typing in full words, you can get the result you’re looking for in half the time. Video, news, blog and image results line the page neatly and cleanly, making sure that you don’t need to go searching multiple pages or queries to find information.”

“In the end, it combines the good aspects of Google Search results, YouTube, Yahoo! News, and more into one simple interface. It makes searching quick by automatically loading results. It is not a Google replacement, but rather an enhancement. If you’re looking to get your information even faster, especially images and news, then LeapFish is an effective search tool to consider using.”

Read More on the Mashable Post Here…

No Click Search Technology Delivers Instantaneous Results as You’re Typing

PLEASANTON, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ — LeapFish, a multi-dimensional search engine that combines the best of the web in a single search, today announced the release of its new click-free search interface that delivers search results as you type. The brand new search engine that captures not just relevancy but also the variety of the web, now offers one of the world’s fastest search services with instantaneous results as each character of a search term is entered.

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.

“This technology is truly evolutionary in the context of today’s Internet,” said Behnam Behrouzi, president and CEO of LeapFish. “Desirable data continues to be lost at an accelerating rate due to the information overload and filter failure of search engines. The LeapFish click-free search functionality and aggregation capability offers users a convenient solution for users to maintain control over this data.”

The inspiration behind LeapFish has been the opportunity to provide an answer to the information overload and the fragmentation of accessibility that is naturally occurring online today. “If relevancy, the currently defined search formula, continues to be limited by the virtual real estate allotted by page 1 of the major search engines, then the variety and accessibility of the breadth of the web is being lost in the information overload,” says Behrouzi. “LeapFish works to capture this variety in a new multidimensional, and now instantaneous, click-free search interface.”

For users who don’t have heavy Internet usage, LeapFish promises to conveniently surprise them with information they wouldn’t have normally been aware of if they used a traditional search engine.

The revolutionary new search service uses proprietary hyper-threading technology to communicate with a growing list of over 200 online authorities, currently under development, to deliver more than just relevancy to users. LeapFish launched its search platform in November 2008 and is currently seeking patents for its new offering.

To try the new click-free search engine for yourself, visit http://www.leapfish.com.

About LeapFish

LeapFish is a multi-dimensional search engine that captures the variety of the web in a single click free search interface. The search engine delivers instantaneous results from major Internet destinations while you type. LeapFish Inc. is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton California. For more information, visit http://www.leapfish.com.