New Search Engine from Enterprise Software Company

October 22, 2004

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New Search Engine from Enterprise Software Company

After focusing on the Enterprise market with its Exalead Corporate product range, Exalead is now announcing an Internet search engine that provides a whole new search experience. Initially, one billion Web pages are being made available on its Innovative Features The following is a sample of Exalead features that simplifies search for all Internet users. Thumbnails: As a picture is worth more than words, each search result has a thumbnail to give a visual preview of the page. Non-Web pages such as PDF or Microsoft Word(R) documents are represented by an icon for quick identification. This feature makes search pleasant to use and is available for every page contained in Exalead's index -- a world's first. It makes it much easier to recognize a logo or a site you have already visited, to distinguish between a personal site and a corporate site, or to avoid spam sites. Preview: By clicking on a search result, Exalead quickly shows a preview without formatting in the bottom half of the screen. Search terms are highlighted and a fast-forward button allows you to see the next search term in a click. This preview protects public users and companies from viruses by not opening the original document (Webpage, PDF, Word, etc.), so no fear of viruses -- think of it as risk-free surfing! Keyboard shortcuts make the interface even faster to use. Bookmarks: The "Add a bookmark" function is in the preview window. If Internet users find a page interesting, it allows them to store the page's address in their browser's favorites list. They no longer have to open many windows to avoid losing what they have found -- Exalead bookmarks what users find important so they can come back to it later. Exploring a Site: Does it bother you that most search engines show many results from the same site, when the site is of no interest? Exalead's innovation is to show only the most relevant page from every site (or a sub site of very large sites). If the site contains many relevant documents, the icon for the site is a clickable folder, which opens up to allow you explore the site. Very practical in use, this two-step method provides the best of both worlds. Real-Time: The freshness of search results is as important as their relevance. Exalead has real-time indexation technology (even for billions of pages), allowing it to remain synchronized with the Web to ensure the freshest results possible at all times. Of course there is always a delay between the creation of a new document and its arrival on the search engine, but this delay is now the strict minimum. Sort by Date: Exalead allows for the first time ever the sorting of documents by date. Combined with the real-time indexation, this method makes real-time information monitoring much more efficient. Natural Language: Totally multilingual, Exalead has linguistic tools to help everyone search with greater ease. For example, the search engine automatically searches on word roots ('race horse' can find documents with the words 'race horses'). The search engine recognizes compound words, to better refine the search, and it offers to automatically translate documents that are not in your language. Finally, Exalead makes spelling suggestions for misspelled words, and in difficult cases, it makes phonetic searches or even searches that are tolerant of spelling mistakes! A New Way to Explore the Web Traditional search engines are good for finding information you already know about, but on the other hand, they are very poor for exploring information. Exalead shows not only the search results, but also a table of contents on the left side. This provides a quick overview of all the documents in the search results (and not just the first ones shown). It allows users to refine their search on a navigation axis. These axes consist of: -- The relevant directory entries from the human built Open Directory. -- The Website's geographic location. -- The document's format (Webpage, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). -- And a set of related terms that represent various themes identified by the search engine while computing the search results. Using sophisticated real-time statistical linguistic technologies, Exalead is actually able to automatically extract even the rarest themes from search results to provide an exhaustive and powerful navigational aid. By clicking on one or more of these navigation axes, the user is able to "surf the Web" without ever leaving the search engine! Advanced Features The Exalead search engine features many advanced operators typically found on high-end professional systems only. Exalead enterprise products like Exalead Corporate or Exalead Mail feature even more advanced features. Word Stemming: Exalead not only allows word prefix searches, but also powerful regular expression searches, including word patterns with wildcards. This exclusive technology is a must for crossword puzzle lovers! Boolean Operators: Exalead features full-blown Boolean operators that power users need to better formulate their searches. Contrary to most other search engines, these operators can be combined at will. The NEAR operator can be used to perform proximity searches, and the OPT operator can be used to rank documents without filtering out documents in which they do not appear. murdok | Breaking eBusiness News Your source for investigative ebusiness reporting and breaking news.

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