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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 29 2014, @03:43PM
I liked the old Google which could be used to find things on the Internet. In the past 5 years or so, their search results have gotten sloppy and imprecise. You just can't coax precise searches out of Google any longer. Google's search is getting useless. They keep making search worse and worse.
I don't get why they can't offer the old, precise results for people who want them. Have "Google Classic" or something. Why ruin the only thing they have going for them? No one gives a rip about self-driving cars, thermostats that let Google track their energy use, or smart watches. People use Google for search, and they're nothing like the used to be.
Google has peaked, and is only ruining things now. They ruined their precise searches. Even using "quotes" I can't get precision out of them any longer. They ruined image search. They just jumbled up the maps user interface and made it useless. (Why does it reset the satellite settings every time I go back now? Why is there so much clutter on the screen I can't see the map?)
Google needs a wakeup call. They need to roll the clock back to 2008.
(Score: 2) by carguy on Sunday June 29 2014, @11:52PM
Agreed that Google needs a wake up call. Any idea how to send them a message?
Lately I've been using https://startpage.com/ [startpage.com] which seems to do what it says -- if I search for something, my Gmail doesn't start sending me adverts about that kind of item.
Product searching with Google cues ads in Gmail.
Bing rarely finds the obscure things I seem to be looking for, only try it occasionally.
Leap.it is too busy for my eyes.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by monster on Monday June 30 2014, @04:14PM
It's not only Google's fault.
Remember all those SEO crap of a few years ago? Part of it was legitimate, but the rest was a lot of "How to game Google results in your favor?". When enough people started doing it, quality of results went down the drain, Google modified its ranking system and a lot of legitimate pages got caught in the crossfire.
Like with the tragedy of the commons, everybody was so keen on gaming their rank that it lost its magic-like properties.