PLEASANTON, Calif., July 27 — LeapFish today announced the release of LeapFish 2.5, its new search interface that delivers highly relevant multimedia content from the deep web in a faster and easier to use format. Users can now more fully leverage the convenience and features of the search engine for their search queries.

LeapFish 2.5’s key difference is an overall simplified interface that allows users to fully utilize and leverage the vast quantity of relevant data that LeapFish delivers over any other search engine. “We’ve made it even easier for users to ingest more of the web in a single search,” said Ben Behrouzi, LeapFish CEO. “Users stay more educated and aware as LeapFish is able to communicate more relevant content from the web,” he said.

The new LeapFish search engine also has an improved image search experience that offers full size real time downloads of any available image as the user hovers over an image with their cursor. Similar features exist with the search engine’s new shopping experience that delivers broader shopping results from millions of sites across the web.

To learn more about the recent LeapFish release, visit http://www.leapfish.com.

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that delivers traditional, multi-media and real-time search results, through a social search platform. LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

As the web evolves users are beginning to seek out alternatives that provide a comprehensive search experience, far beyond Google & Bing results. Paula J. Hane, believes ” It’s best to keep an arsenal at hand rather than just a single weapon of choice.”

This realization contributes to the growth and adoption of LeapFish:

“In 2009 the company made substantial advancements and innovations to its growing search engine including real time search, deeper search results, personalized homepages, content sharing features, and proprietary Twitter and Facebook applications. The changes have helped grow the engine from an Alexa traffic ranking of 150,000 to 10,000 in less than one year.” - Said Hane

LeapFish growth is also paving the way for new job opportunities.  LeapFish Senior Corporate Recruiter, Rachel Leathers, recently attended the National Career Fair in Silicon Valley and was featured in an article that speaks to the decline in unemployment. Associated Press mentioned LeapFish due to our recent announcement of creating 150+ jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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LeapFish was excited to take part in the festivities at SXSW this past weekend. The team was fortunate to engage directly with key influencers in the media, discussing the new web with Kevin Rose founder of Digg, Pete Cashmore founder of Mashable  (right), Robert Scoble of Building 43, Leo Laporte technology journalist and radio show host , and Clay Shirky writer, author and professor at NYU.

Lena Shaw, the Manager of PR and Social Media at LeapFish had the opportunity to sit down with one of SXSW’s featured editors Scott Kelly to discuss LeapFish and LeapFish culture. Scott Kelly currently writes for MyTekLife.com and took the time to understand the team behind the technology. SXSW now knows LeapFish employees are active, creative and love to spread the LeapFish love.  Stay tuned for the Spring issue of MyTekLife featuring Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover.

Our Team would like to thank SXSW for putting on another record breaking conference. SXSW brought it with a vengeance, our team is still recovering and we look foward to SXSW 2011!

The article goes on to discuss the need for real time results in search engines. Studies have shown that users are not finding Google Real Time results useful leading researches to believe that the results in general are not useful. However with their recent announcement, Twitter has seen a rush in innovation allowing smaller real time search engines to have access to their “firehose” feed.  Bas goes on to state that “Bing could be one of the real time search engines and compete with the likes of LeapFish”.

Behrouzi believes there are two types of real time searches that will attract users to sites like LeapFish:

“There are two types of real time searches,” Behrouzi said. “One occurs passively when the user is searching for a specific, potentially non real-time topic and they are offered real time results. The second occurs when a user is actively looking for a real time search experience for a particular topic. Including real time results in SERPs only addresses the first type of real time search, because it is an inadequate experience real-time content. The second type of real time search must be answered with a more multimedia experience that not only captures the piece of news occurring in real-time but also delivers the key imagery, video and opinions that users are looking for when actively performing a real-time search.”

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PLEASANTON, CA – (February 25, 2010) – LeapFish, an evolved search engine, announced today the integration of Topsy into its real-time search results. Consumers can now identify the most popular, relevant and influential results on the real-time web.

Topsy is a search engine that finds the most talked about links on Twitter and organizes them by popularity and influence. Topsy’s index is available via its extensive open API called Otter, which powers LeapFish’s integration.

LeapFish’s real-time search empowers consumers with immediate access to live news, video and imagery for any real time topic.  Now through the integration of Topsy, LeapFish curates the Twitter stream into a powerful list of the most popular and influential links being shared in the real-time web.

“Real-time search just became a lot better,” said LeapFish CEO, Behnam Behrouzi.  “With Topsy’s aggregation intelligence, LeapFish users now have the most popular and influential links on Twitter identified for them,” said Behrouzi.

“LeapFish’s integration of Topsy’s ranked results provides a great example of the power and potential of the Otter API,” said Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO of Topsy. “Topsy is excited to support LeapFish’s innovative approach to providing users access to the hottest and best content,” said Prakash.

To learn more about the newest additions to the site, visit http://www.leapfish.com.

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content.  LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California.  For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

About Topsy:

Topsy is a next-generation search platform powered by the social web. Based in San Francisco, Topsy is a privately held company founded by Vipul Ved Prakash, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, and Gary Iwatani. For more information, visit labs.topsy.com/about/.

PLEASANTON, CA (February 11, 2009) – LeapFish announced today that its multimedia search engine continues to grow in user base and that it anticipates more than 20 million searches in 2010.  The company reported strong early adopter growth in 2009 having reached a 10,000 Alexa rank in one year.

“We are seeing a great growth trajectory in the number of users setting their homepage to LeapFish,” said David Bruggeman, Vice President of Marketing. “LeapFish’s versatile homepage and its deep search results are serving as a great tool for searching the new multimedia web.”

The company reported that at its current growth rate and with its new partnerships, the search engine anticipates more than 20 million searches to be performed in 2010.  “Through search engine optimization, our growing affiliate network, partnerships with strategic software vendors and our continued organic adoption we are growing user base by large multiples this year,” said Behnam Behrouzi, president and CEO.  “Our product advancements in 2009 have helped gear the engine for an even bigger year in 2010,” he said.

In 2009 the company made substantial advancements and innovations to its growing search engine including; real time search, deeper search results, personalized homepages, content sharing features and proprietary Twitter and Facebook applications, that have helped grow the engine from an Alexa traffic ranking of 150,000 to 10,000 in less than one year.    “We are the only search platform searching all that users care about in the new web with over fifty providers including Google, Yelp, Twitter, Youtube, Mashable, Topsy, Wikipedia, and many others,” said Bruggeman.  “The innovations and data integrations from 2009 have set LeapFish apart and are clearly reflected in our Alexa traffic ranking,” he said.

The company also reported growing success with its unique ad model that boasts zero cost per click fees.  “Thousands of advertisers are securing high demand keywords that can deliver ROI in just a short period of time,” said Bruggeman.  “Over 80% of our advertisers renew their sponsorship for one year or more,” he said.

“My experience with LeapFish has been unbelievable. Since purchasing two key words from LeapFish, our website is getting quite a bit of viewing.  Sales are getting much better and the exposure is larger than I ever expected,” said advertiser Chad Levinger, of Temecula California.

LeapFish plans to release a secondary ad program to advertisers this spring.  For more information visit www.leapfish.com

About LeapFish

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

PLEASANTON, CA – (January 27th, 2009) – LeapFish announced today the launch of its personalized homepage, empowering users with a single customizable page that captures all that they care about on the web. From Yahoo News to Mashable to Facebook to US Magazine Celebrity News and many other providers, consumers can now drag and drop their favorite portals and applications in a new easy to use homepage that loads everything in one window.

“Access everything you care about online from one homepage,” said LeapFish CEO Ben Behrouzi. “Users can now get their latest news, fully interact with their Twitter and Facebook accounts and share content, from a single easy to use page on the Internet,” he said.

The LeapFish homepage acts as a personalized dashboard to the Internet where everyone can get the latest news from the providers they choose, interact with their social networks and share the content they care about at anytime from one homepage. Two of the main features of the customizable homepage include Facebook and Twitter applications, where users can interact with their accounts without having to visit the sites separately.

The LeapFish homepage is equipped with a growing list of portals, applications and tools that users can easily add via a widgets page that currently offers about thirty five different widgets. Some of the homepage widgets currently available include Yahoo News, Celebrity News, Mashable, TechCrunch, Youtube Videos, Facebook and Twitter.

LeapFish plans to release more homepage widgets every month including an up-and-coming FourSquare widget. For more information on customizable LeapFish homepages, visit http://www.leapfish.com

About LeapFish:
LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. LeapFish is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

A few months ago LeapFish sponsored one of the first Silicon Valley Tweet Ups. Last night due to the positive response generated at TweetUps in the past, LeapFish was invited to do a live demo for 200+ technology enthusiasts in San Francisco.

The San Francisco New Tech MeetUp is a premiere networking community sponsored by the New York Times & Mashable. The MeetUp attracts the likes of VCs, journalists, hackers, techies, recruiters, CEOs, and bloggers, with a running total of 5 thousand active members.

BBC News describes SF New Tech as “a networking event in which the -next big thing- in web developments meets the audience looking out for the hot new tip.”

Last night was an event to remember, SFNewTech set a personal record with 7 companies presenting and LeapFish had the opportunity to close out the event and end the year strong with a very interactive demo!

Key influencers in the media attending the MeetUp were excited to engage and discuss LeapFish. In the end LeapFish received a positive response and the question of the night was “Are you hiring!?” The Team at LeapFish is proud to say we are hiring, growing and will continue to innovate your search experience online.

In closing our team at LeapFish would like to extend a big thank you to Myles Weissleder, for putting on another successful San Francisco New Tech MeetUp. We would also like to congratulate Twilio , Cubetree , PSD2CSS Online , Useful or Waste , Zuora , & Fido Factor on great presentations. Great Work and we’ll see you all in 2010!

PLEASANTON, CA – (December 14th, 2009) – LeapFish, a new multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform, announced today the integration of four new services.  The search platform now includes results from Digg, Facebook, Crunchbase and Scribd, expanding its reach for consumers on every search.

Perform a topic search and get news results from Digg.  Perform a company or person search and see profile results from Facebook and Crunchbase.  “LeapFish will continue to integrate more services and valuable content to equip users with a search engine that does an extensive search of the web,” said Ben Behrouzi, LeapFish CEO.

LeapFish’s latest release includes :

• Digg – Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet with over 527 Million Digg recommendations and 14 million submitted stories.

• Facebook – Facebook is the largest social networking user database with over 350 million users worldwide.

• Crunchbase – Crunchbase is a free directory of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit with over 20 million page views each month.

• Scribd - Scribd is the largest social publishing network in the world with over 10 million documents published.

For more information on the recent release, visit http://blog.leapfish.com

About LeapFish:

LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content.  LeapFish is a privately held, 100-person corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

The article covered the partnership between The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation and LeapFish that raised $10,000 to send a 4-year-old ill boy to Disneyland.

Excerpt from the Article:

Regarding the use of Social Media to promote Charities, ” It only takes a couple of moments a day to change the world…LeapFish, a Pleasanton search engine, has pledged to donate $10,000 if 100,000 Twitter messages are generated.”

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