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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: 2) by elf on Monday June 30 2014, @11:18AM
Its not all Google's fault, everyone is trying to game the system which makes it very hard to actually index web pages properly. For the most part I like the suggestive nature that google provides to search, for example spell correction and suggested alternatives to search. A lot of people have commented on the amount of ad's being show, I rarely see any and if there are they are quite well integrated and quite well ignored (although some I have clicked because they have been highly relevant)
In terms of leap.it, I hate it. I can't easily see which website are being returned (which is the point of a search engine), I don't want twitter links in my results (if I did I would search twitter) and its slow. This looks like a digg.com search engine to me.