Exalead one:desktop software uses Exalead search technology to find almost any type of file on your PC - mail, documents, charts, presentations, media files… With its exalead.com look, this software deeply integrates within your customized exalead.com interface.

Now, you can search the Web, your PC, images, Wikipedia and videos from one single entry point FOR FREE! The same way you search on exalead.com, you can refine your search by date, related terms, file type, source, language, file size, sender, recipient…

New with one:desktop 4.6 :* Intuitive navigation of search results with the Exalead web search engine interface
* Rich preview of virtually any kind of document
* A “Search and act” system: users can “act” on a retrieved document directly from the results page
* A Right Column that permits users to manage the results page: choose the categories and the order of display
Do not hesitate to try this exalead one:desktop free edition and read this Quick User Guide and tell us about your user experience !The Press Release is available here.

exalead one:desktop also exists in a professional edition to search on your company’s Intranet and more. Click here for more information

 

We have spoken to you a lot about Charles Knight, known in the Search world for his blogs ReadWriteWeb and Altsearchengine.

On June 2, 2008 Altsearchengine blew out its first candle, and we are very proud to present our best wishes to Charles Knight and wish him much success.

Exalead has been working hard to make the features of our website accessible to anyone with an internet connection.  Search Specialist, Stephen Arnold, has been following Exalead for the past 2 years. He says, “Google is, except for Exalead, arguably the most sophisticated free Web search provider in the world.”

Click here to read the article.

Exalead has been part of the server revolution, providing faster and more efficient service over the years.

This is not the first time nor the last time you will hear about our server improvements. In fact, we will be providing regular updates to address the evolution of traffic, the increase in the number of indexed pages and our improvements in service.

Here is a brief summary of the stages that have affected the life of our production center.

To begin, Exalead installed some machines in the offices of our service providers. But considering our growth, it was necessary to give them dedicated homes that did not use our equipment.

March 2005: We installed the first dedicated room with the opening of our Site 1, consisting of more than 10 machines shared in more than 6 racks. Yes, they were big machines! This allowed us to index 1 billion pages.

August 2005: We added around 30 servers to address the traffic, with the capability of indexing more than 2 billion pages.

March 2006: Then things really heated up, and we opened a second site and added more than 50 servers (10 racks) that enabled us to index more than 8 billion pages.

January 2007: As a result of the abundance of services and ideas that leave our laboratories, we had to add more servers to Site 1.

2007 to Present: Our laboratories continue to work and prepare for an upgrade to enrich our architecture, improve speed, and become more robust and efficient. But we had to add 20 machines to Site 1 in august 2007.

Since then, we have been actively working to put these improvements on line, so you can see the evolution, but this is not the calm before the storm…

Round up your friends, your family, your coworkers, the mailman, your dog Spot…The finish line is in view and Exalead is ahead of the pack, but the race is far from over.

Vote, vote vote for Exalead as your favorite alternative search engine!

QUAERO officially launched March 17. For those who missed our earlier post, Quaero is an advanced R&D program focused on the analysis, classification and usage of digital multimedia content for professionals and consumers. This 5-year, collaborative initiative includes 24 industry and university partners, with a total budget of approximately 200 million euros (99 million in public financing from France matched by an equal contribution from project participants).

Centered around technologies for the automated treatment of text, speech, music, images and video, Quaero seeks to develop new ways of addressing information access challenges in the face of the digital revolution. The effort revolves around five axes including the digitization and enrichment of content for libraries and publishers; personalized, multi-device distribution of video; better targeting for advertising; and multimedia search for the Web via the Exalead search engine.

Quaero represents a “unique opportunity” for small French companies to advance technologies in these fields even though they do not have access to the extensive R&D resources of giants like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, states François Bourdoncle, co-founder of Exalead.

 

The search engine market is a tough one.

Ask.com, the search engine from the American group IAC/InteractiveCorp, is abandoning its general Web search engine strategy in favor of vertical search focused on specific demographic groups (such as the Rushmore Drive engine that seeks to prioritize content for an African-American audience).

This reorientation is accompanied by a restructuring plan encompassing the layoff of 8% of the Ask.com workforce and the departure of Gary Price, a search guru who joined ask in order to bring innovation to the heart of the Ask engine.

We can’t let this event pass without pausing to salute the creativity of the Ask team, as evidenced by products such as Ask3D, which offered some interesting new functionalities for users. Our best wishes for the future for all the Ask crew…

It’s also a moment for us here at Exalead to reflect on the disquieting reduction in the number of general Web search engines over the past few years, particularly as the stakes for free, open and universal access to information continue to escalate.

The role of challenger in this domain is important. It is to continue to innovate, to continue to seek of new ways of solving old problems, to continue to imagine novel ways of accessing and navigating the world’s burgeoning information stores, and it is the duty of the challenger to keep pressure on market leaders without ceasing to interrogate its own vision. For, in a world where diversity is fading, innovation left in the hands of a sole actor will cease to exist.

At Exalead, we are committed to doing our part by keeping up a flow of innovations for the public, like searching by associated terms (at www.exalead.com since 2001), thumbnail previews for results, face filtering for image searches (a market first released a month ahead of Google), and many others to come…

So a little message to those who support us: we’re committed long-term to challenging the status quo within the search engine world. Spread the word.

Tired of scrolling through endless sales pitches when looking for hard information on the Internet? Or, do you sometimes want to cut to the chase and shop, shop, shop? Exalead has a new feature made just for you.

The new “commercial” filter, available on the search results page under the “Site type” in the “Narrow your search” panel, lets you sort your search results by their “Commercial” or “Non commercial” nature. Click “Commercial” to bring commercial results to the top of the list, pushing non-commercial results to the bottom of the result set. Do the reverse with “Non-Commercial” to relegate commerce-related results to the bottom of the heap.

This refinement, together with all the other options available in the “Narrow your search” panel, makes it easier than ever to find exactly the content you’ve been seeking—fast!

Each month on his blog AltSearchEngines.com, Charles Knight (whom we’ve spoken about before) selects one candidate as his Alternative Search Engine of the Month. Now, he’s handing the ballot box over to YOU to select the Search Engine of The Year.

Just go to The Search Race and sign up for a free Search Race account. You can cast a ballot for as many search engines as like, but you can only vote once for your favorite engine (like…ahem, EXALEAD). He also invites balloteers to submit an engine if he’s overlooked any in his top 100. A great way to celebrate the rich (but often hidden) diversity of search on the Internet today.

So, don’t just sit there, rev up your mouse and VOTE!

As promised, here is BLOGZ, THE blog dedicated to BAAGZ, Exalead’s latest web service.

You can find it at http://blog.baagz.com or via the “Links” in the right menu.

You’ll find there all the news about BAAGZ (new features and events, etc.).

Don’t miss out! Go to BLOGZ:)