I am typically not a huge fan of metasearch engines in my sourcing life. I feel they have their purpose and when working on a research project do quite often employ one to make sure I’m not missing any amazing information from other sources. But, still, I almost regularly prefer to just go to Yahoo or Google to run searches.
Until I met LeapFish.
You know I love speed from this blog. You can’t spend 40+ hours a week online and not wish for the internet to move faster, so I try to optimize my tools as much as possible. LeapFish is in beta release and optimized to work with Google Chrome. Their tag line “Just Type It” is true. Type anything. General Search. Boolean Power String. XRay. As you type, the site doesn’t just give you options, it starts to produce results, in real time. With a quick click you can switch your search engine results from Google to Yahoo to Live and see how your top ten varies which additional candidates you need to pursue. The focus at LeapFish is not just indexing the web, but aggregating it. Definitely review their press releases since the site’s launch in November 2008 for more information on their progression.
For the sake of experimentation, I built these quick searches to take LeapFish through its paces. First, a PowerSearch. Knowing that MSN doesn’t respond well to the command “inurl” I only used “intitle”:
intitle:resume sap “project manager”
Many, many, many results come back quickly and by adding on a few additional key words, I can tweak this search to produce results more in line with my current needs:
intitle:resume sap “project manager” “washington, d.c.” -jobs -sample
site:linkedin.com CCRN
i’m still understand