Chart that captures all the feature “borrowing” that Google could have done since Leap2 has been in-market with Time, Inc. trying to land a search partnership.
1. Content
Collaboration
Real-time
Search
Visual web
Native
Search
Benefit
Leap2
Core Tech/IP
Embedded visual
search to increase
engagement &
monetization for
premium publisher
Pre-caching technology to
automatically load
previews of web pages
Systems and method for
human curation and
socialization of search
results across multiple
networks
Web text analysis
related to real-time
grams
Standing queries
Acceleration & Velocity
algorithm on grams from
Twitter stream
Integrate near real-time
search results into
general web search
Webpage Preview
of Search Results
to accelerate
information location
Leap2
Release
Provide platform
for human
curation of
search results
Leap.it key features and Google releases
Leap.it Feature
2013 2013 2014 2014
Google
Release
Google and Twitter Team Up to
Offer Their Own ‘Instant Articles’
Google and Twitter won’t host
publishers’ content. Instead, the plan
is to show readers cached Web pages
— a “snapshot of [a] webpage,” in
Google’s words — from publishers’
sites.
Recode, 9/11/15
Google Officially Expands
Twitter Into Desktop Search
Results
After experimenting with
tweets on Google's desktop
results, Google has made this
feature live for all English
searchers globally.
Search Engine Land, 8/21/15
Introducing Google+
Collections, a new way to
group your posts by topic
Every collection is a focused
set of posts on a particular
topic, providing an easy way
for you to organize all the
things you’re into.
Bradley Horowitz
G+ post, 5/4/15
Introducing Matched content: a
new way to help your visitors
discover content on your site
Matched content generates
contextually relevant and
personalized article
recommendations from the
pages on your website.
Inside AdSense
Official Blog 4/22/15