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How Small Business Can Harness the Power of Social Media

Posted by: Lena Shaw on: March 5, 2010

ShareThere was once a time where social media was primarily used by large corporations or brands. Over the past year the web has seen exponential growth in the adoption of social media practices by small business owners.
The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business recently conducted a study on the relationship between social media and [...]

LeapFish & Topsy Team up for Smarter Real-Time Search

Posted by: Lena Shaw on: February 26, 2010

ShareDid you know you can refine your real-time search while accessing the most relevant, freshest real-time content on the web?
LeapFish recently integrated Topsy.com, a search engine that finds the most talked about links on Twitter and organizes them by popularity and influence. Users now have the most popular and influential links on Twitter identified for [...]

Search 2010: A New Decade Demands Better Search

Posted by: Lena Shaw on: February 9, 2010

ShareSeveral trends emerged in 2009 that effected how users search the web, these defining moments have acted as a precursor to search innovations that will be seen this year. A previous post recapped several trends seen in 2009 and this post will expand on several enhancements we will most likely see heading into 2010.
The web [...]

Search Experience Improved

Posted by: LeapFish Media Team on: February 2, 2010

ShareExecutive Post by Behzad Behrouzi VP, Technology
Late last year we released a new evolved search experience, LeapFish.  The objective behind the project was to make search more personal, increase social engagement, and most importantly improve content relevancy across a variety of data types.  This meant returning content that not only provides the most value, but [...]

LeapFish: There’s no place like Home

Posted by: Lena Shaw on: January 28, 2010

ShareWith rapid growth of information sources, real time content and conversation streams, users struggle to keep track of multiple friends and interests.  LeapFish is providing a solution by aggregating multiple widgets from popular websites into a single interface serving as an internet dashboard for social media content, news, tools and social networking applications.
Your search homepage [...]

Searching 2009: A Look Back at a Year in Search Innovation

Posted by: Lena Shaw on: January 12, 2010

ShareIt took a decade but the search industry is finally adapting to the new web and 2009 was a year of innovation revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the web. The web that once was just a bunch of static websites created by those who knew how to code is now alive with [...]

LeapFish 2nd Annual White Elephant Extravaganza!

Posted by: Lena Shaw on: January 7, 2010

ShareIt was a White Elephant Christmas bash at LeapFish! With amazing employees, great food, fabulous Christmas decorations and a White Elephant gift exchange that will never be forgotten!
Everyone participated and gifts soon filled the break room.  The gifts varied from the hottest Snuggie on the market decked out in cheetah print to the highly sought [...]

Real Time Search: Google, Yahoo, Bing, LeapFish

Posted by: Lena Shaw on: January 5, 2010

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The dawn of a new era in search has arrived. To make search relevant for today’s web user, any player hoping to stay relevant in the search space can no longer ignore real-time search. The dominant search players, including Google, Bing, and Yahoo have taken note, each rushing to launch real-time search features and [...]

Pandia Covers LeapFish as a “Top 5 Social Search Engine”

Posted by: LeapFish Media Team on: December 2, 2009

SharePandia Search Engine News, a blog specializing in search engine technology, writes that the “new LeapFish has a place among the Top 5 sites for social search”. The post notes that not all social search engines present real-time results, but LeapFish, in addition to having real-time text results, also has real-time results from a number [...]

Search Engine Watch – LeapFish Launches “Search for the Living Web”

Posted by: LeapFish Media Team on: November 19, 2009

ShareSearch Engine Watch, a blog covering search engine news, recently reported on LeapFish’s recent real-time and social search engine launch. The post by Frank Watson notes that “LeapFish offers a start page for web users where they can watch their Facebook and Twitter accounts as well as set up feeds for news, entertainment, sports and [...]


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