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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, 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.