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Leapfish: Enhanced Social Media and Real-Time Search Experience
We have seen a fewsocialas well asreal-time searchengines previously, and this whole week is all about a new-comer:Leapfish.In fact , there’s so much buzz around it that I found it necessary to review the toolhere and discuss it with our SEJ community.Leapfishis a new social and real-time search engine. In their own words:There is more content, more variety and more services that are all very valuableto us. LeapFish searches the traditional, multimedia and social web andproviders results from all over the Internet from major authorities in their respective spaces. Here are some of the database and parts of the web wesearch; Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Image Authorities, BlogAuthorities, Wikipedia, Yelp, Digg, CyberHomes, Yahoo Answers, Amazon andmany others from a growing list of providers.
First, let’s see how it works for a newcomer:
Social, Real-Time and Multimedia Search
1. Go ahead and search something; you will be first taken to “Web results”containing:
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Google news results;
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Google / Yahoo / Bing general search results;
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Youtube results;
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Twitter search results;
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Blog search results;
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Image search results (via Google or Flickr);
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Relevant Digg submissions;
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wikiHow results;
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Yahoo Answers search results;
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Related products (from Amazon or eBay);
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Relevant web documents (ia Scribd).
 
Now you can click through the tabs to see more of each search type:
Real-Time Search
: Digg results, Twitter search, Twitter trending topics, Youtubevideos and Flickr images.
Video Search
: videos relevant to the provided search terms as well “
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”videos and video channels (on the related topics).Hover over any video result and watch it play in full…
Image Search
: Related images and videos;Hover over any image result and watch the full image load on your screenwithout having to leave the page.
News
: More news search results (with most recent Twitter and blog updates);
Blogs
: More blog search results (with most recent Twitter updates);
Shopping
: More results aggregated from Amazon and eBay.
More search goodies:
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While-you-type search suggestions;
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Related searches:
 
Quick search tip
: if you plan to use Leapfish on a regular basis, consider addingtheir search plugin:
Now, let’s dig deeper to see which other features the site has to offer.
Customized Homepage
Not only the site allows to change background color to adjust it to your eyes, youwill also be able to add / remove widgets from your personal home page.To access the feature you will need to join the site or login via Facebook. After logging in, click “Add Widgets” (which hides behind “Customize Homepage” linkin the top right corner).
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