LeapFish
Leapfish.com and its parent company, dotnext, web site are both down. Their sites no longer display their homepages.
LeapFish.com is a search aggregator that retrieves results from other portals and search engines, including Google, Bing and Yahoo!, and also search engines of Blogs, Videos etc. It is a registered trademark of Dotnext Inc, launched in 3 November 2008.[2]
Mission and Product Concept
Leapfish concentrates on providing a single, connected, multi-media experience for both searching and sharing traditional and real-time content in order to make the new web more integrated for users. The company promotes the idea of "Living The Web" and being able to view all the Internet sources in one place.[3] lost 2000 form them scammers FML
History
Leapfish launched in November 2008 and incorporated the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live Search) as well as other tools like YouTube, Amazon, and Yahoo! Answers. LeapFish also introduced a click-free search technology, which gives users results as the keyword is typed in.
Leapfish launched its current version in November 2009. The update includes features such as traditional and real-time search, a customizable homepage, interactive widgets, and social media integration.[4]
Features
- Real-time Search – Real-time search enables users to receive information as soon as it's published on the web. LeapFish filters this information by supplying live news, Twitter feed, Digg results, images and videos.[5]
- Traditional Search – LeapFish retrieves its search results from other portals and combines them on one page. Results from Google, Yahoo, and Bing are displayed on the page as well as images, video, news, Yahoo! answers, shopping, publications and blogs.[6]
- Customizable Home Page – LeapFish offers a customizable homepage to its users, similar to iGoogle. Users can register and log in to use widgets such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as real-time widgets featuring news, weather, celebrity updates, stock market statistics, and YouTube videos. The widgets can be moved around the page based on the user's preference.[7]
- Search Result Sharing – The LeapFish search results allow the users to share what they find with various social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Technorati, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, and Kaboodle[8]
- Share Bar – Outgoing links from LeapFish search results will display a "share bar" at the bottom of the page that allows users to link the page to Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Delicious, and other social sharing sites.[9]
- SEO Profile Pages – LeapFish gives users space to display social information such as Tweets, YouTube Videos, Blog Posts and Flickr images. The pages are SEO friendly and can be indexed on Google[10]
- Widgets - Provides non-webpage results (such as multimedia or news articles) in form of widgets.[11]
- LeapFish offers affiliate applications for website owners
- LeapFish Search Widget – Allows an affiliate to make money per search when placed on a website.
- LeapFish Domain Valuation Widget – The widget can be placed on a site to display free domain appraisals to site users.
Advertising
One of LeapFish's advertising programs allows business owners to display a permanent advertisement on the top of the search results page. The ad space is granted by purchasing a keyword of the advertiser's choice.[12]
Domain Appraisal
In addition to its search tools. LeapFish also provides domain appraisals complimented with a scoring system via their own proprietary algorithm.[13] In addition to appraisal values, LeapFish provides Domain Information such as Traffic Rankings and Unique Visitors from Compete.com.[14][15]
Controversy
The new leapfish.com has had a mixed reception from users of sitepoint forums, from bloggers and other regular web users.[16]
On February 3, 2009 the online blog TechCrunch posted evidence of LeapFish sales representatives intentionally abusing the Google's pay-per-click model against potential customers.[17]. The CEO of LeapFish's parent company, DotNext, confirmed the sales representative's actions, but announced that the representative was no longer employed by the company.[18][19]
The company has also been accused of astroturfing[20] (Note, in particular, the comment from Robin Wauters on November 20, 2008 at 12:57 pm PST), and spamming.
As opposed to other Search Engines, such as Google or Yahoo which appear to favour web based sales, Leapfish keywords are largely sold via an aggressive telemarketing[21][22] operation which has not been without friction with the online community[23][24]. The telemarketing team consists of 80 sales persons[25][26].
See also
References
- ^ "Alexa Leapfish traffic results". Alexa. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/leapfish.com. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- ^ http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/leapfish-com-back-from-the-dead
- ^ http://www.leapfish.com/about/overview.aspx
- ^ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/leapfish/14779/
- ^ http://bub.blicio.us/leapfish-making-comeback-with-real-time-search/
- ^ http://www.cio.com/article/521064/Real_Time_Search_5_Alternatives_to_Google_Bing
- ^ http://blog.leapfish.com/2010/01/27/leapfish%E2%84%A2-launches-customizable-homepages/
- ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leapfish-unveils-real-time-social-search-engine-that-captures-the-living-web-69274652.html
- ^ http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=116840
- ^ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/leapfish/14779/
- ^ http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11465546?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
- ^ http://www.leapfish.com/advertising/how-it-works.aspx
- ^ http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/leapfishcom-brings-back-popular-free/story.aspx?guid=%7B3B9E8EF1-D0DF-4618-BF69-69019C723421%7D&dist=msr_2
- ^ http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/leapfishcom-brings-back-popular-free/story.aspx?guid=%7B3B9E8EF1-D0DF-4618-BF69-69019C723421%7D&dist=msr_2
- ^ http://blog.leapfish.com/2008/12/15/leapfish-free-domain-name-appraisal-tool-its-back/
- ^ http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=579037
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/03/the-leapfish-chronicles-admitting-to-click-fraud-is-an-interesting-business-model/
- ^ http://benbehrouzi.org/2009/02/04/leapfish-gets-second-lashing-from-techcrunc/
- ^ http://blog.leapfish.com/2009/02/04/leapfish-and-the-facts/
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/20/leapfish-launches-another-meta-search-engine-no-one-will-ever-use/
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/03/the-leapfish-chronicles-admitting-to-click-fraud-is-an-interesting-business-model/
- ^ http://www.salarymap.com/leapfish-review.cfm
- ^ http://editweapon.com/leapfish-scam/
- ^ http://www.thebransonpro.com/leapfish-sucks/
- ^ http://www.benbehrouzi.org/2009/02/04/leapfish-gets-second-lashing-from-techcrunc/
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/20/leapfish-launches-another-meta-search-engine-no-one-will-ever-use/#comment-2541583
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