When it Comes to Internet Search, I am so 1995
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LeapFish Inc. All opinions are 100% mine.
Everyone is so impatient. They just want things now, now now. I was so happy five years ago when I put up a website, and in a month or two, I could find it in the search engines. Now, I find that I have to keep myself from blowing a gasket if I can’t immediately search for what I just wrote. What is becoming of me? I need to rewind myself by a couple years.
Google now has a function that allows you to search in “real time.” You can get the latest information on just about everything. If I could go back in time, the “me” from five years ago would have probably had major culture shock
If you thought the little music box ballerina music was so “now,” Leapfish also offers us a glimpse into live search, incorporating social media. Make a note about what happens at approximately 1:48 into the video. There will be a discussion about that, later.
I am not sure if it is the production values alone, but to me, the Google product seems to poke along compared to the leapfish way of searching. Some bits of it scare me. For my borderline ADD brain, I think with access to so many videos, tweets, and websites at once, I will never get anything done. It will suck the marrow out of any remaining productivity I have. Remember I mentioned to pay attention to what happens at the 1:48 mark? I saw a video for California Toast. What is California Toast? It appears to be a strawberry and Aunt Jemima based product, but are those shards of bananas or shards of bread in there? There’s my point right there.
In the case of Google, it appears that the page is arranged in a safe and familiar way, that it won’t scare me too horribly. I will be able to dink around while still grabbing my security blanket of a nice, linear search that acts as a lighthouse in the sea of my bobbing, drifting mind. Besides, I am entertained by the phony Google pages and the Google Doodles,where the Google logo changes to commemorate a holiday, or whatever they need me to know about, such as to be very aware of meatball eating spaghetti monsters.
Leapfish does use Google for some searches, as you can view what Google, Bing, and Yahoo all have to say about your chosen topic. It lets you customize your own search page, however, and allows you to press a button to get real time search. For me, it might be a little TOO real, because I searched a second ago, and then came back and edited this post to say that I could already find what I just said in search. I better be careful about what I say!
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