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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.

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.

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

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

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.

The FOWA Expo 2007 (Future of Web Applications) is currently taking place in London, UK. This tradeshow regroups web companies from all around the world such as Yahoo, Facebook, Flickr… Giving a good preview of what the Internet is going to bring in the next few months.

Exalead exhibits at FOWA to present BAAGZ.

Here’s a video of Exalead CEO François Bourdoncle presenting Baagz at DEMOfall 2007.

Exalead is proud to present the first semantic search service that lets people find, organize, share and enhance content online. Along with the introduction of the new BAAGZ search service, Exalead launches a special by-invitation-only beta session.

With BAAGZ, Exalead has been selected along with 70 other companies to take part in the prestigious DEMOFall in San Diego that is taking place right now.

WHAT IS BAAGZ?
BAAGZ is a new form of social network that can be described as a live network of shared interests. It allows users (we like to call them “baagerz”) to easily organize their favorite things and topics online into individual “baagz.” While BAAGZ offers a simple way for users to organize their favorite online content, it also helps to educate BAAGZ about what is of interest to its users, or baagerz, and connect them with related content or other baagerz who are experts on a given topic.

HOW DOES BAAGZ WORK?
Shared interests are characterized by the public content contained within individual folders, called baagz, that act as shortcuts to your favorite Web sites, articles, pictures, videos, RSS feeds and notes.

Exalead’s expertise in indexing the Semantic Web (www.exalead.com) is at the core of BAAGZ. BAAGZ uses its semantic description of every Web site stored in a baag to determine what a given baag is about – whether or not a given Web site is specifically tagged by baagerz.

Our development team has been hard at work on BAAGZ for over a year and represents more than a decade of R&D. BAAGZ combines the best of search technology and aims to capture the very essence of what is referred to as Web 2.0.

For the moment, BAAGZ is available in beta version (Firefox2+) and by invitation only. For more information or to request your invitation to the BAAGZ private beta, please visit www.baagz.com.

Many websites are already talking about BAAGZ, including Mashable, Paul Gillin’s blog and Econtentmag.

You can also read the entire Press Release.

Exalead has become a partner in the ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) initiative, a joint project of the World Association of Newspapers, the International Publishers Association and the European Publishers Council.

Working with leading publishers, search engines and other technical and commercial partners, APAC’s aim is to develop a global, open and flexible standard for communicating permissions information relating to the access and use of content on the Internet.

As a global provider of search software for business and the Web, Exalead is actively participating in the ACAP pilot project.

“Exalead offers the technical capacity, capability and enthusiasm to ensure the pilot project succeeds and to enable ACAP to demonstrate a fully workable proposal by the final project conference, which is to be held on 29 November in New York,” said Gavin O’Reilly, president of World Association of Newspapers, one of the pilot’s sponsors.

Read the full Press Release

Carole&co