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

Now that we’ve updated you about new platforms added to the index (Part 2), and told you how you can add your own videos, let’s take a closer look at the structure of the search results.

Enter for example ‘Daft Punk’ in the video search engine:
http://www.exalead.com/video/results?q=daft+punk

When you click on a video’s thumbnail image, you can preview the video without leaving the search results page. Handy, huh?

You can also refine your results by confining them to a particular source, a specific video duration, or even a specific topical category and descriptive keyword.

Happy video hunting!

Exalead participated in Search Engine Strategies January 15 and 16 at the Grand Hôtel Intercontinental in Paris.

The program included presentations by the leading search providers in the French marketplace, plus an educational session designed to give practical answers to day-to-day questions about search engine marketing.

Jean Marc Lazard, who heads up strategic projects at Exalead, took the podium to present Exalead and raise awareness of the diversity and versatility of search on the web today.

Here is a PDF of his presentation, “Exalead: For all the ways you use the web”

Enjoy!

Exalead at Search Engine Strategies, Paris 2008

In our Video Search Update, Part 1, we told you how we broadened our index to include your direct submissions. We have now enlarged the index once again, adding these popular sites:

Now that the RSS mode has been activated, all that’s needed to add a new source is to locate its corresponding RSS feed. So if you find a good video source, send us the feed URL.

After having indexed Dailymotion, Youtube and Metacafe, we decided to enlarge our index by enabling you to submit your videos to our crawler directly.

We currently support the Media RSS format, adopted by the majority of video content distributors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_RSS

All you need to do is send us your feed URL so our crawler can fetch it.

Once your feed is submitted, our crawler will check back regularly to verify that the video is still available.

An example of a video feed:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:media=”http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/”>
<channel>
<title>My site</title>
<link>http://www.mysite.com/rss/mrss.xml</link>
<description>Videos published on my site</description>
<item>
<author>jane56</author>
<title>Interview with Tom</title>
<link>http://www.mysite.com/video/1</link>
<description>Tom responds to my questions about the new product.</description>
<guid isPermaLink=”true”>http://www.mysite.com/video/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2007 08:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
<media:content url=”http://www.mysite.com/player/1/interview_de_tom.swf”
type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”/>
<media:content duration=”325″ >
<media:thumbnail url=”http://www.mysite.com/vimages/1.jpg” width=”340″
height=”250″ />
<media:keywords>Tom, interview, new</media:keywords>
<media:rating scheme=”urn:simple”>nonadult</media:rating>
<media:category>Entertainment</media:category>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

<guid>:
-The guid tag contains the URL of a page where the video can be found. When the user runs a search and clicks on a result, he/she will be directed to this URL.

<thumbnail>:
- The thumbnail tag contains a link to a descriptive image for the video.

<pubDate>:
- This tag is for the publication date of the video.

<media:content>:
-This tag contains a direct link to the video. ‘Type’ is a standard video MIME type.

<media:keywords>:
- A list of keywords associated with the video.

<media:category>:
- One or more categories associated with the video.

<media:rating scheme=”urn:simple”>:
- Indicates if the content is ‘adult’ or ‘nonadult’ (suitable for minors) in nature.

This list is not exhaustive. See http://search.yahoo.com/mrss for further specification details.

Contact us if you have any technical questions!

So year 2007 is at an end. Yes, already!

After a year of much hard work, many innovations and some extreme challenges, the whole Exalead team wishes you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.

We would like to thank you for your loyalty throughout 2007, especially as your comments and ideas have changed the shape our search engine and helped us grow as a company.

We start 2008 with a larger and thoroughly rested team, looking forward to the challenges the New Year brings. We expect many surprises but will continue with the responsible growth you have come to expect.

We wish you all a good holiday season… and most importantly of all, stay connected.
Click here to view your greeting card !

AltSearchEngines, Charles Knight’s famous website on alternative search engines we already talked about published on last Friday an interview of François Bourdoncle, Exalead’s President.

This interview redraws François’ career and Exalead creation, introduces new-born BAAGZ and goes back over Exalead’s ambitions beyond French borders.

You can read this interview here.

Charles Knight, the author of the blog dedicated to “alternative” search engines, drew up his wishlist of Web Applications for Christmas, and BAAGZ is part of it.

Read the Top 5 Web Applications he wants for Christmas here.

Take a look at the pool and vote for Exalead as Search engine of the year.

Phil Bradley, who writes one of the best blogs on search engines, posted an article about Exalead’s logo for Halloween.

Congratulations to our (new) graphic designer.

From the 5th to the 8th of November, Berlin receives the Web 2.0 Expo.

This conference aims at building a broader European Web 2.0 community and will tackle Web 2.0 fundamental issues -design, marketing, user experiments…Famous entrepreneurs such as Tariq Krim -Netvibes- or Michael Arrington -TechCrunch- will play a part to this event sharing their knowledge.

BAAGZ, which gets to the heart of Web 2.0 issues, participates to the event.

Exalead will also be part of the Gartner Symposium ITexp in Cannes, from November the 4th to the 8th.