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Leap Thinks that a Visual, Social Approach to Search can Unseat Google from its Throne

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday June 29 2014, @08:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the Better-Mousetrapt dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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/

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 29 2014, @12:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 29 2014, @12:51PM (#61610)

    the problem is that websites present information/data but don't think much about local "searchability".
    instead they put a input-box for local search which just bothers the google search database actually.
    websites need to think about "searchability" when creating the website.
    of course the "oh wow! shiny!"-factor is more important to lure visitors.
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    the solution would be to run a "standardized" search database program on each website that can link
    to other databases.
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    even glossy fashion magazines have a index of sorts. you can find article about "best hangover remedies" on page 22 and advertisement for D/G on page 123, 67 and 9 etc.

    the websites need to also employe humans to created this database file (for which they are responsible) and then submit it to a central search entity (if they wish).

    the coup would be for a start-up to develop this *free* "search-database" that can "plug-in" to "any" website to create a human editable search-database nutshell-file that could then be submitted ...
    this "plug-in" would run on the local network (on own server if need for size) to create this index -not- "hey google here's my URL, send your bot over to index it a little bit will-ya please?".

    but why bother : ) people don't link much anyways.