At Exalead, we do… or at least we try.

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The Scottish Government selected exalead one:search to open up online access to 25 years worth of official documents on its portal, www.scotland.gov.uk. Exalead was selected not just for its scalability and data-format versatility, but also for the very practical search assistance it provides to site visitors. The Scottish Government has also replaced their legacy enterprise search system that was running on their internal content with Exalead.

Managing an annual budget of more than £30 billion in 2007-2008, the Scottish Government is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport. To aid the public in accessing information pivotal to these day-to-day concerns, the Government needed a search tool that was as pragmatic as its mission.

Exalead’s patented search navigation technology fulfills this need, helping users get beyond what they type in the search box to helping them find what they are truly looking for. It does this by guiding visitors through the search process, enabling them to refine their searches according to pre-defined metadata like site section (About, Topics, News, Publications, Consultations), or using automatically-extracted information like document type, creation date, subject matter, document category, related terms, and more. For, as the Scottish saying goes, “The tree doesn’t always fall at the first stroke.”

Phil Bradley, librarian’s librarian and noted search engine blogger, has published “10 Reasons Why Librarians Should Use Exalead.”

“It’s a search engine for people who like to use search engines, and it’s an engine for librarians. If you’ve not used it, I’d strongly recommend giving it a whirl next ‘Google free Wednesday’.”

Thank you, Phil, for the kind words about Exalead, and for furthering the web community’s knowledge about search engine technologies and alternative search engines.

To thank our sales team and ace engineers for their stellar performance in 2007, Exalead decided to send the crew to Marrakesh for some well-deserved R&R.

On the agenda: camel rides, go-carts, archery…and tech seminars! Because the quest for better search never ends…

Did you know enterprise search is fast becoming the de facto way to access corporate information, just as web search engines have become the gateways to information on the Internet? We invite both enterprise search neophytes and pros to visit our corporate blog, which covers:

• New enterprise search products
• New enterprise clients
• Technology innovations
• Events and press releases
• Industry observations and news

And of course, don’t forget, we welcome your comments and questions on that blog as well as on this one!

The European Commission has approved funding for QUAERO, an advanced research and development program concerned with the automatic processing of digital multimedia content. The program involves a consortium of 23 partners (including Exalead) and is headed by the Thomson group. Read the press release on Europa, the portal site of the European Union.

On February 28, Exalead, in partnership with KMWorld and The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), hosted a webinar in which Exalead’s co-founder François Bourdoncle and Steve Rappaport, ARF’s Director of Knowledge Solutions, discussed ARF’s experience in implementing an online knowledge-base. They also discussed hot trends in information access, including the growing use of hybrid vertical search applications by businesses. If you missed the discussion, you can access it now on KMWorld’s webinar archive.

Exalead is participating in the 14^th annual Documation expo, March 12 and 13 at CNIT Paris, La Défense. This year’s theme: “Bringing content management and document management together.” You’ll find the Exalead team at stand D12.

Get a free visitor’s pass with the code EXA.

Learn more about Documation 2008.

As part of his series “Search Wizards Speak,” search guru Stephen Arnold recently interviewed Exalead founder François Bourdoncle. Though the series focuses mainly on enterprise search technologies, you’ll find much of interest with regard to Bourdoncle’s Alta Vista roots and the company’s guiding “search by serendipity” philosophy, as well as its dedication to unified search across all platforms (desktop, enterprise, mobile, Web…).

Read the interview.

Join us Thursday, February 28, 2007, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Eastern Time for the KMWorld Webinar: “Leveraging the Power of Unified Information Access for Effective Knowledge Management” (aka, “Shortcut to a Five-Star Knowledge Base: Lessons from The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF)”).

Exalead co-founder François Bourdoncle and Steve Rappaport, Director of Knowledge Solutions for The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), will discuss ARF’s experience in implementing an online knowledge-base. Also on the agenda, hot trends in information access, including the growth of hybrid vertical search applications in business.

Register now for this FREE webinar:
http://www.kmworld.com/webinars/register.aspx?eventid=279&src=kmb