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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: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 29 2014, @09:19AM
As clean as Google used to be, and as much as they talked about keeping the boundary clear between ads and "real" results, I have to say that as of late I'm having a harder and harder time figuring out if I'm looking at sponsored links/ads or not.
The colors have mostly gone. There now appear to sometimes be multiple sections of ads, etc etc.
Depending on the search, it sometimes looks that all old faithful returns is a page of ads...
I don't think VR is the answer, but the time for competition maybe be ripe
(Score: 2, Interesting) by acharax on Sunday June 29 2014, @04:59PM
The ads are the least problem, they're easy enough to overlook (or rather, block). No, it's the search results themselves that've changed in recent years, a couple of years back Google began reinterpretting search terms (they'll exchange your query for whatever the engine thinks you've "really" searched for, replacing random terms with synonyms etc., they're even doing this for phrases wrapped in quotes). The only way, as of yet, to prevent their search engine from reinterpretting a query is to use the somewhat hidden verbatim mode.
To me it's this change that has rendered Google useless for all but casual searches, unless I feel like toggling on verbatim mode each and every time I search for anything, they cleverly "forgot" to add an option to enable it by default, no doubt with the intent of removing it entirely in the future (with the old excuse that almost nobody was using it).