LeapTag delivers best of both worlds - Search+Personalization

By Vivek | March 29th, 2007 at 12:54 am ET         

Spent the last hour trying out the tag based personalized search engine from LeapTag. And I think I am pretty impressed. Building on search results from Google, Yahoo,  Technorati and more, LeapTag has delivered a product that even the search king Google does not offer.

To start with LeapTag you need to define your tags and related keywords. From there on LeapTag magic starts. The personalized engine looks at your tags/keywords, analyzes them, and brings back relevant results from news and blogs, websites and books all in a single view. No more do you need to take your keyword to 10 different search engines to get your results. Define your tags once and your result set keeps on getting updated with results from Google Search, Google Blog Search, Google News, Yahoo News, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Finance, Technorati,….. Now that is what we expected Google to deliver for sometime now. Google has made progress in getting Local Search integrated with Keyword Search on mobile phones, and also launched Custom Search Engine, but being able to search across all the major sources from one interface is what we needed. Never bother, LeapTag has that covered.

Actually LeapTag does not seem to emphasize on the above capability too much and wants to project its dynamic tagging and contextual capabilities. While browsing you can easily add new sites to your existing tags to add context to your tags. LeapTag also lets you refine your results by removing, hating, loving the results to fine tune the personalization engine according to your interests. Besides this LeapTag would also incorporate sharing and collaboration capabilities into the product which would work great for research teams.

Right now LeapTag is under Private Beta, and launching sometime soon. Till then fill in their beta access form and wait for an invitation.

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