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Leapfish Search Aggregation, Whats So Special?

By Andrew Redfern @ 28th July 2009 4:35 pm Wolfram Alpha

“Don’t Worry You’re Not Cheating On Google!”

A fun and smart look unfortunatley can’t hide what can be a slow clunky service. A quick search for “Gatwick Airport” should have resulted in a welath of top story results relating the airplane emergency landing, in relaity a slow wait for some pretty low-value results. Leapfish uses Google, Yahoo and even Bing to generate it’s search results.

Whilst I liked the fun vibe: “Don’t Worry Your Not Cheating On Google” displayed in the search bar, I cant conclude with the view that it dipslays the very best of video, blog and search. It simply doesn’t. I am a little unconvinced as to the viabillity of this niche altogether. I-google has wormed its way quite cleverly into our homepages and for a rival to pull me away I want something I cant get easily through Google

The business model replicates AdWords, Bing Adceneter and Yahoo’s Marketing Solutions offering paid search advertising amd keyword sponsoring. New updates will come in August 2008, and will focus on web2.0.

Why do they think we’ll switch?:

“Google has built a reputation of commanding precision access to a tops down organization of websites, which is extremely valuable. But is that everything everyone cares about in the world of web 2.0? The user interactivity demonstrated by the recent events in Iran and with the late Michael Jackson, the tremendous number of new portals including Wolfram Alpha, and the continued loss of accessibility due to the growing information overload is evidence that we need a more sophisticated gateway and interface to the web. We believe a growing number of searches will be answered more completely with LeapFish.”

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Search Engine Wolfram Alpha’s Massive Update

By Andrew Redfern @ 9th June 2009 10:41 pm Wolfram Alpha

Excellent new search engine Wolfram Alpha has today update its search engine database in a big way! Today’s update includes the following:

* Additional linguistic forms for many types of data and questions
* More comparisons of composite properties (e.g. “US military vs. UK”)
* Combined time series plots of different quantities (e.g. “germany gdp vs population”)
* More complete handling of government positions (e.g. “chancellor”, etc.)
* Updates to country borders for India, China, Slovenia, Croatia, and others
* Updates to naming for certain politically sensitive countries and regions
* Additional subcountry regions (e.g. “Wales”); many more to come
* Additional support for current and past fractional timezones (e.g. “Iran time”)
* City-by-city handling of U.S. states with multiple timezones
* Updates to certain European currencies (e.g. for “Cyprus” and “Slovakia”)
* Some additional historical events; many more to come
* Additional probability computations for cards and coins (e.g. “2 or 3 aces”)
* Additional output for partitions of integers (e.g. “partitions of 47″)
* Implicit handling of geometric figure properties (e.g. “ellipse with area 6 and major axis 2″)
* Additional support for Mathematica 3D graphics syntax
* Additional support for stock prices with explicit dates
* Support for planet-to-planet distances and “nearest planet”, etc.
* Extra information when comparing incompatible units (e.g. “ergs vs. newtons”)
* Improved linguistic handling for many foods (e.g. “love apple”)
* More mountains added, especially in Australia
* Support for many less-common given names (e.g. “zebulon”)
* More “self-aware” questions answered (e.g. “how old are you”)
* More consistent handling of sidebar links to Wikipedia, etc.

Interesting new update in the offing hopefully there is much more on the way.

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