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!

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:)

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!

 

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!

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.

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.

Determined to protect the mobility of Exaleaders everywhere, our ace engineers have developed a new interface optimised for display on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The new interface is light and sleek but still offers all the core features Exalead searchers have come to rely on: a choice of Web, Image, Wikipedia or Video search, and a host of options for refining search results.

If you’re a lucky owner of one of these two sweet new devices, discover your favorite search engine anew at http://i.exalead.com.

A big “Thank You!” to Exaleader Benoît Guyon for having proposed the idea for the new interface on our feedback site. Have a suggestion of your own? Be heard at http://feedback.exalead.com/.

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.

The start of the new academic year is often time for renewal: new haircut, new wardrobe, new books…In keeping with tradition, Exalead introduces you to the new and improved version of its blog.

Graphically speaking, our Artistic Director (whose creativity is unstoppable) has had no boundaries. And the results speak for itself - a more polished design, modern style graphics, nice colours…It is a sight for sore eyes!

But I’m sure you would agree, that graphics aren’t everything (what really matters is inside, isn’t it?), that’s why a search bar has been added. You can now search in the blog’s contents or the web directly. And to make it even easier for you, you can directly access the most recent posts or search for articles by author.

As you can see, the new blog has it all!! Exalead felt that they owed you this much. Especially those of you who keep this blog alive!

We hope you like this new version and we are anxiously waiting for your feedback!