Who needs a search button?

LeapFish.com just released a no-click search technology that delivers instantaneous search results as you type.  No need to use the mouse to click a submit button, the engine displays results in real time.  The brand new search engine is also an aggregator that conveniently gathers results from YouTube, Google, Yahoo Images and other authorities and offers them up for every search in one easy to use interface.

So Why LeapFish?

Because you can’t fit everything that we care about on page 1 of Google.

LeapFish provides an answer to the ongoing information overload and filter failure by allowing users to access more than one data type in one place.  Users are empowered with constant access to videos, images, blogs, news and other types of results that are made available at the perimeter of the core web results that are provided by Google and other engines.

So what.

Users gain access to more information without having to do the individual searches one by one on different portals.  Users are surprised by finding new information relevant to their search terms that they would have ordinarily been forced to look for independently.

Try a search and find out immediately whether there are videos and/or images you never knew existed.

So how does it work?

Future :

LeapFish is building a customizable interface that allows users to determine what online authorties they want in their version of the search engine.  Want an engine designed specifically for real estate related searches?  You can build it with LeapFish Dashboard set to be released in 2009.

Recent Press :

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11465546?nclick_check=1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28684013/

http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/leapfish-com-a-new-search-portal

http://www.jaimeviniciusbarros.com/2009/01/leapfishcomanewsearchportal/

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/01/16/leapfish-launches-click-free-search

http://au.sys-con.com/node/811715

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Recently I’ve been very focused around content accessibility and the information overload that is occurring online. It’s clear that the natural progression of the Internet has produced a normal fragmentation of the web. More simply put, there are more and more online destinations that we care about, support or use than we have adequate tools to conveniently access them with. With each destination offering and executing around a unique proposition, the Internet has become a deep and wide place for all of us.

Think about it. How many social networks are we a part of? How many shopping sites do we jump to and from? How many job boards do we use to post jobs or find job seekers? Even more so, how much relevant data that we don’t know about exists in cyber space? How much of it can search engines like Google and Yahoo capture on page 1 without being forced to essentially discard the rest due to low viewership numbers on page 2 and 3? The variety and breadth of the Internet is being lost as fast as it is being created because our traditional methods of accessing this data are slowly but surely becoming less adequate. As more and more unique services are born, the more and more fragmentized accessibility becomes.

So what is the answer? One answer is more time. More time to be able to utilize all the different kinds of unique services one by one. So when we search for something to purchase we can search Google, Ebay, Amazon and others. The second option is aggregation. In the same way that a search engine aggregates and indexes websites and web content, we require a mechanism that aggregates the variety of unique services, not just websites, that are available to us and we care about. Aggregation is key to maintaining accessibility of the entire sophisticated web.

Take Indeed.com for example, an all in one search engine and dashboard for job seekers. Indeed combines, integrates and displays a large percentage of all jobs published out in cyber space in one search. The innovation not only provides convenience but also defragments the accessibility of all job sites online. Indeed is a prime example of a much needed and accepted aggregation service for the online job space.

Or take our latest portal LeapFish.com, an all in one Internet dashboard that works to capture the variety of the web by integrating results from major online destinations including YouTube, Ebay and others in a single search query. LeapFish lends more accessibility to all of the different kinds of data we care about. As a result users are conveniently surprised with information that they wouldn’t have normally been aware of had they used a traditional engine.

Aggregation is big area of growth. For entrepreneurs, grappling with the information overload can deliver great value. I foresee big growth in aggregation and would be willing to invest in any serious startups in this space.

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Ben Behrouzi

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It’s been 2 years since the inception of DotNext. A company dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation.  It’s been a long and tough road with all sorts of surprises, twists and challenges, but I am proud to say that the team of once 3 members is now near 100 strong and growing. Happy Second Birthday DotNext!

Our Vision

From the get-go our vision has been to create and grow ground-breaking Internet companies that challenge the status quo. Our goal has been to find areas where we can deliver new found value back to consumers and execute. And we’ve done that with some of the most innovative service products out there including LeapFish, iHype and up-and-coming Ziddler.

Hard Work

The team has worked extremely hard to build sophisticated applications and systems in record time, assemble one of the most successful sales forces in the country and navigate through some of the most brutal economic times we’ve ever faced. We continue to employ, we continue to innovate and we continue to take on the big risks that help push the envelope as well as stimulate our ailing economy.

Our People

Without our people DotNext is nothing. I am thankful to our people as they are our driving force and it is through them that we’ve been able to perform month after month and build a great company from the ground up. It is through their will, commitment, creativity, and relentless drive to build that DotNext has been able to produce the very companies it now operates. A big thank you to all of you.

And what a great culture we’ve fostered. From brutal ping pong tournaments, blowing off steam in Vegas, sweating it out in long go kart races to our day to day interactions with each other, I can honestly say we work hard, play hard and we all love to work here.

What We’ve Learned

We’ve learned that it’s a brave new world. From challenging market and economic conditions to online predators, we’ve learned of the new terrain that companies like ours will have to navigate.

The Future :

We continue to be excited at operating and growing our current companies, serving our clients, and developing our future products and services. We continue to grow rapidly while maintaining our profitability during these harsh economic times and look forward to a bigger and better 2009!

Come join our team!

Ben Behrouzi

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Hello readers. Today we announced the official Beta of LeapFish.com! Our new multi-dimensional search engine. We’re looking forward to your comments and feedback. Please place them here or at http://blog.leapfish.com

Here is the press release :

Newly Released Beta of Multi-Dimensional Search Portal Offers the Best of the Web in a Single Search

PLEASANTON, CA (November 20, 2008) LeapFish, a multi-dimensional search aggregator, announced today the launch of its beta search engine, LeapFish.com, that promises to conveniently surprise users with new- found search information as it combines the best of the web in a single search.

Type in a search term and LeapFish instantly delivers a plethora of relevant results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN, along with blogs, news, Q&A, videos, images and shopping results from major online destinations including Ebay and YouTube, all conveniently organized in a single, easy to use interface.

“The growing complexity and variety of the Internet has naturally fragmented data accessibility online. Today’s users are driven to utilize more than one online destination to find the data they seek,” said Behnam Behrouzi, President and CEO. “LeapFish offers a one-stop convenient solution for more complex searches by querying the web’s most sought-after destinations and rendering the results to users in a surprisingly easy-to-use format.”

More than just a useful aggregator, LeapFish features a refreshingly clean interface with search widgets that display up-to-the-minute news, images, videos and more, on every search term. Click “see more” under a search widget and get a complete list of relevant results. Hover over a video and view it right on LeapFish. Hover over an image thumbnail and see the actual image on demand.

“Future releases will allow LeapFish to intelligently decipher the search term entered and deliver the most relevant search widgets from a growing list of over 200 currently being developed,” Behrouzi said. “Users will receive instant results from relevant online authorities in maps, music, real estate, social sites and more, based on the search term they enter.”

Behrouzi points out that LeapFish does not intend to race alongside Google or Yahoo, but instead seeks to leverage what is already working and wanted online. “LeapFish utilizes what already works to capture the breadth and variety of the web and lends more accessibility to what is already valuable to us in the vastness of the Internet,” he says.

LeapFish utilizes proprietary hyper-threading technology to communicate with all major online portals simultaneously to deliver the various search results from across the web to users in a single search query. The beta search platform has been under development since early 2008 and is geared for considerable advancements over the coming months.

LeapFish Features Summary:

•New-Found Knowledge: By developing relationships with more than 200 leading online destinations in search, news, imagery, videos, real estate and more, LeapFish is defragmenting the accessibility of valuable information online.

•Convenience and Variety: LeapFish conveniently surprises users with new-found search information by bringing the variety of the web right to their finger tips.

• Simplicity: LeapFish’s comfortable and familiar interface allows for the organization and display of various types of search information in a single easy-to-view format.

So will you make the leap to LeapFish? To try LeapFish for yourself, visit http://leapfish.com.

About LeapFish

LeapFish empowers Internet users with a radically simple way of searching the breadth and variety of the growing web. The first multi-dimensional search aggregator in the world, LeapFish gathers, organizes and renders the most relevant information from the depths of the internet’s most valuable destinations in one simple search. LeapFish Inc. is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton California. For more information, visit www.leapfish.com.

Additional LeapFish Links :

• Tinycomb.com

• Marketwatch.com

• Ibtimes.com

• Betanews.com

• Earthtimes.org

• Infinityarts.com

• Digg.com

• Tmcnet.com

• Blog.leapfish.com

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Hello and welcome to MaxStartup!
 
My name is Ben Behrouzi, I’m 27 years of age and a serial entrepreneur from the San Francisco Bay Area. I have been thinking, dreaming and executing business concepts since I was 15 years of age and in my time thus far I have been fortunate to be a part of building over 25 multi-million dollar startups and online services from the ground up, including Reply.com, iMotors, AgentConnect, ePERKS, RealtyNow, iCastle and others. I’ve helped produce hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, several million dollars in profits and served hundreds of thousands of clients & customers nationwide.

I’ve built some of the most sophisticated applications online in record time, supported by some of the most advanced systems infrastructures known in Silicon Valley. I’ve helped raise millions of dollars in capital and have hired, trained and managed hundreds of employees nationwide. I’ve had several failures in my life with some lessons that have left their spots, and have even been victim to online lies and an actual blog war instigated by the many that are motivated by the basest of human qualities.  

This is a blog about startups.  This is a blog for young entrepreneurs.  This is a blog about entrepreneurship, the American dream and building big internet businesses that change a bit of our future.

I am going to tell you my stories and the stories of many others blessed and plagued by the successes and challenges of building startups, with an objective to build a fluid and dynamic exchange of knowledge for building startups.

MaxStartup is here to share with you the many lessons learned, challenges faced and experiences had in the path of entrepreneurship and I invite you to follow and contribute as MaxStartup analyzes different challenges in the past and in the future for popular startups throughout the internet.

Thank you and stay tuned.

Best regards,

 
Ben Behrouzi

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