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What do you think ? Do you think this approach is better than Google ?
When you do a Google search, before you scroll down there's a good chance your screen is mostly just filled up with ads. If this were to launch today, would you use it ? Like, seriously use it ? Sure, it's accessible. But there's a thick layer of commercial imperatives, quality judgments and assumptions that lie between you and the information that you get to see.
Leap.it results come up displayed on cards. For each search, it integrates social links, searching into Twitter streams, with real-time news and historical information. It's like Google, plus Google News, rolled in with a Twitter search. If you log in and create an account you can curate and share your own search 'perspectives' with others.
http://pando.com/2014/06/27/leap-it-thinks-that-a-visual-social-approach-to-search-can-unseat-google-from-its-throne/
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bradley13 on Sunday June 29 2014, @08:56AM
An example: Today I was looking for the homepage of a business. I didn't remember the name of the business, but I know what they do and the name of the small town they are in (where they are certainly the only business of this type). In DuckDuckGo, the business' homepage is the 23rd link (I didn't actually find it, because I stopped looking when I got to irrelevant links to Expedia and Facebook). Instead, I tried Google, where the business was the top link.
That is typical, in my experience. Sure, if you're looking for something obvious, even Bing may accidentally get it right. But if you actually need to search for something, using inexact or ambiguous keywords, Google produces by far the best results.
Until someone produces better, or at least competitive results, Google will remain dominant. It's really that simple...
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 29 2014, @11:19AM
Agreed - Google works.
From the article, "before you scroll down there's a good chance your screen is mostly just filled up with ads". Seriously - anyone who has that problem needs to turn in his/her geek card. Google is my primary search engine. I don't see the ads.
Oh - well - yeah, if I fire up a LiveCD, or use someone else's computer, I'll see a virtual wall of advertising. But, on my computer, I don't see it. Good grief - I know that I can't be the ONLY person who knows how to configure a browser with addons and such!
Like any other tool, if you don't know how to use it, Google just might hurt you. If you know your tools, then you can make them behave the way YOU want.
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