Comments on: LeapFish Caught Red Handed Spamming TechCrunch

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:11:52 +0000

Leapfish is basically a simple website site where you can search the web and quickly switch between the results from Yahoo, MSN and Google. Leapfish has a cool features just like Bing that loads videos quickly but from what I can tell Bing is much better. Leapfish also pulls data from Yelp, Amazon, Ebay and a few other sites as you search. I cannot see any reason why this website is going to be popular because it just does not have much to offer. Leapfish generates money by selling advertising similar to other search sites. A telemarketer from Leapfish called me and said that Leapfish was partnered up with Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The Leapfish sales person tried to manipulate me into thinking that he could put my company on top of all the search engines. The Leapfish sales people use high pressure techniques over the phone to make you think that you have to buy specific key words before the advertising spots sell out. The sales guy I talked to on the phone claimed that he could not even tell me how many times my key word was actually searched. I looked up the company’s web traffic and quickly realized that Leapfish is a scam. If no one really uses Leapfish, then the keywords are worthless. Please beware, this company sells useless advertising space to unsuspecting business owners.

Take care,

Mike

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[...] of “being caught doing naughty things” incidents. The LeapFish employees were caught astroturfing on TechChruch and one of their employees was caught committing a click fraud. The official respond from LeapFish [...]

By: ePerks To File For Bankruptcy. But Things At LeapFish Are Peachy!

ePerks To File For Bankruptcy. But Things At LeapFish Are Peachy! — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:41:29 +0000

[...] Well since we are using the recent events in the economy, why don’t we bring up Bernard Madoff as well. Why? Thea answer is LeapLish.com- a new search engine launched by the same group of people. if Unlike for Michael (the sales rep cited above)- things for LeapFish sales representatives look peachy. According to a recruitment ad on Craigslist, a sales rep can make $150,000 a year while working at LeapFish. I am not surprised at all that ePerks decided to fold down their shop, just about after about one month of unsuccessfully trying to get traction with the search engine and even having been humiliated on the world’s leading technology blog TechChrunch. [...]

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:08:11 +0000

Mike thanks for stopping by. Their business model seams to be based on it…. and cold calling.

By: Mike Pannell Fort Worth

Mike Pannell Fort Worth — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:58:26 +0000

They are spamming alot of folks. I have seen this on many blogs

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:05:53 +0000

It's a shame. A smart marketer could have turned that review around and used it as an opportunity. Oh well. Happy Thanksgiving Ned!

By: Ned from Baltimore

Ned from Baltimore — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:42:42 +0000

I checked out tech crunch, that was a fun exchange. He doesn't seem to be learning anything from these experiences.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:12:02 +0000

You meant to write “he was being ethical”? I would rather see him write that every employee involved in that “astroturfing” was fired- that would be ethical as far as I am concerned.

By: loanmods

loanmods — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:53:46 +0000

alltough he was being ethical the ceo shouold have just blanked and denied the issue.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:47:36 +0000

I see they just finally learned how to block IPs, so they are blocking me
know from all their websites. Now the problem with it is that I am on a
shared IP- I hope they are blocking their own clients as well

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:29:40 +0000

Yes catch up you Americans

It was getting a bit cringe worthy in the end. Still he nipped over to one of his loudest critics and give it what but seemed unable to answer my challenge to prove his allegations using a dictionary and external evidences.

My site also seems to cause him some pant wetting or something. Mind you that could be because I love my Disemvowler (that I wrote) and don't get to use it much.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:51:48 +0000

Brian,

I was embarrassed to see that exchange on TechCrunch. Even if I had to fire all 80 of my employees I would never allow anything .like that to happen. But then I have heard that for the photo opportunities bunch of models are hired and the company is really run by 3 or 4 people.

By: profwebs

profwebs — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:26:46 +0000

I saw this the other day while I was stumbling:) I thought that was him. What an idiot. Better be careful what you say about him, eh?

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:50:30 +0000

What a wasted opportunity. Many companies would lover to be reviewed on
TechCrunch.

By the way I thought we were already following each other on Twitter, just
added you back.

By: Dennis_Pease

Dennis_Pease — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:01:57 +0000

Spamming comments is how their CEO has handled his marketing for some time.

He said; “I apologize if some of our employees have posted extra comments on here from our office IP” I say BS. This is the standard operating procedure for his past businesses as well. Always anonymous phony praises for his company.