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OK, so you won’t win a Wii by just saying hello, but you will have a chance to enter a random drawing for one by meeting with us at Enterprise Search Summit 2009 on May 12-13 in New York.
Stop by our booth number 28 to book an exclusive preview to our new Exalead CloudView offering and get a complimentary search needs assessment with Spencer Shearer, Exalead’s Senior Director of Technical Services. The assessment will include a detailed evaluation of your company’s enterprise search and information access needs.

Launched in September 2008, Cloudview™ is our new unified information access platform built on Exalead search technology. IDC calls our technology disruptive “because the company has moved aggressively from Web search to enterprise search, and now to information access…Exalead is one of only a handful of companies that have created new and better hybrid architecture to handle data as well as content.”

We’ll have a crew from Exalead on hand to show and tell you more about CloudView as well as how Exalead is helping create a new generation of smart, search-based applications that put data easily at your fingertips.

If you’re in New York, but not attending the conference, you can still meet with us at our private suite at the Hilton New York. Let us know in advance and we can reserve a time for you.

For information management, databases offer precise, controlled access to data.
But, they do not offer the easy-to-use search capabilities that most knowledge workers manipulate daily on sites such as Google. Access to information contained in databases is more difficult, and more restricted. One solution to this information bottleneck is to let search engines support the brunt of the work, by offloading information from the database into alternative infrastructures, such as that provided by search engine technology.
Many business applications such as search, report generation and data analysis might be performed more efficiently on the replicated data without involving the native database technology, e.g. transactions. These offloaded databases, retaining some of their structure, can be recombined, mashed up, creating one-off, possibly disposable, databases, while the primary data is safe in the original database.

Exalead has taken the lead in organizing a scientific workshop to examine the limits and potentialities of use information retrieval and search engine technology for information management (IM) applications.

Come see the results at “Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management (USETIM 2009)” Aug 24, 2009 Lyon, France.
This workshop is being held during the 35th International conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB09)

The call for papers for USETIM 2009 is open until May 10, 2009 just here!
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=5101&copyownerid=3906

We have a search engine for videos and images, and there is always room for another to add more variety to each.

When it comes to the Web, Twitter has a lot coming its way and hence we have Tweepz: a search engine to find people on Twitter based on Exalead’s core technologies.

Simply enter the name, bio of a person you are looking for and Tweepz brings out the closest possible matches.

Demonstrating the capability of Exalead’s powerful technology, Tweepz, created by Exalead’s Netherlands Team (Jochem Prins), was conceived in only a couple of days. Congratulation Jochem

Tweepz is currently indexing just over 2.5 million Twitter users (follow @tweepz to be added to the database) and aims to make finding people who interest you an easier task.

Tweepz not only lets you search by geography, biography or name, but also hopes to index the content of Twitter users’ nominated URLs in the future, thus offering a larger scope and capacity to return meaningful search results.

But Tweepz takes it further than that!

You can also filter your results. You can narrow your results by number of followers, the language they speak or extracted entities (key words which show up in their bios) all of these divided into percentile ranges.

RSS feeds for specific queries are available, as is the simple ability to tweet the results you are seeing.

Test Tweepz.com and give us your feedback!

We are glad to announce that Mike Hobson has joined Exalead as Sales Director for the UK and Ireland.

Prior to coming on board, Mike was the UK Sales Director at Autonomy. Mike is responsible for overall business in the region with a special focus on partnerships. He has over 18 years experience in sales and sales leadership roles working for leading software companies including Autonomy, Verity, Information Builders and Interleaf.

We wish him good luck in his new role!

On April 6th, CIO, LeMondeInformatique.fr and IT NEWS INFO’s ceremony for Enterprise and Business Trophies for Information 2009 was held.

We are very proud to announce that GEFCO has won the CIO-online.com trophy: “Grand Prize and Innovation Trophy” thanks to its new vehicle track & trace service built on Exalead CloudView’s platform.

The Innovation Trophy awards efficient and effective audacity; the Grand Prize awards a particularly relevant and complete IT strategy that services the organization that installed it. With 2 of the most prestigious prizes, GEFCO is the big winner of the night.

This critical application for GEFCO’s business, conceived with the ST Groupe, constitutes one of the first major SBA applications (Search Based Applications) from Exalead. This prize bestowed by Chief Information Officers from the biggest companies, awarded both GEFCO’s choice of innovation and Exalead’s vision that has promoted the use of Index type technologies to construct business applications for several years, like operational reporting, with a guaranteed return on investment.

More information about this award >>

More information about the GEFCO case study >>

And a bonus, images from the event!

Our friends from the well known site Pandia have pushed the button very far with their April 1st posting.

In case you have doubts, we have not had private meetings with Serge Brin (we would be very honored) and Exalead continues to develop worldwide in an independent manner, increasing signatures, innovating daily with our clients. Thanks to the readers of this blog for supporting us with so much energy.

Greetings to Per and Suzanne who have supported us for several years, our revenge would be sweet.

On behalf of Exalead and its frog-eating poets.

PS: Between us, we have heard that some of our competitors were using this info to counter us at prospects and customers. The masks fall