Did Google rip off Leapfish? (1 Viewer)

[carita1959]

Well, in the beginning of November, I turn my computer on and Leapfish (my homepage) was completely new. It was also much better and in the end I liked it even more. Damn I hate it when things change!! So, Leapfish added a great function which was real-time search, when you could see the latest posts, comments, tweets etc. on something you searched. Within a week I had most of the office using Leapfish for search and home pages.

They put out this video, which was a cool ad idea and really well put together and really showed all of Leapfish’s features including real-time search:

YouTube - LeapFish Search Engine - Living the Web

So the thing is, I was happy enjoying my Leapfish search action, when up popped in my real time news section a video from Google. I watched the video (see link below) and was under impressed. The biggest difference is that with Leapfish the whole page could be used for real-time, not just the real-time window.

Google’s video (kinda boring huh?)

YouTube - Real Time Search

So, it looks to me that Google may have ripped off Leapfish?

I mean Leapfish was first with real-time search a month before Google came out with their video which shows they now have it.

 

[SnowFox]

Just because Google advertised live search a month after Leapfish (wtf name a rip off of LeapFrog) did does not automatically mean Leapfish was first.

 

[brent012]

Google was one of the earliest search engines and created a lot of features we now take for granted, does that mean Leapfish ripped off Google?

 

[staplers...YAY]

who cares. everything gets ripped off anyway, and besides, google has saved my arse far more than leapfish...and its got a better name, too.

 

[LordPc]

the leapfish video looks a lot cooler, someone really went to town with that, but i dont think you can say that googled ripped off leapfish. it is a good idea and google just wants to get on board

whenever something big comes along, there are always loads of imitations.

 

[0bs3n3]

There is no such thing as a new web. The internet was created with community in mind.

 

[SnowFox]

There is no such thing as a new web. The internet was created with community in mind.

Well actually the internet was invented for the US military in mind so as to remotely control ICBM's.

 

[BlackDragon]

Yep I think it was originally called ARPAnet. Though I'm not sure what that stands for. It was a cold war thing.