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.”

Officially launched earlier this month at GITEX (Gulf Information Technology Exhibition) in Dubai, the TAYAIT.com engine aims to become the search engine of choice in the Arabic-speaking world.

To help TAYAIT achieve its goal, the Exalead-powered platform offers access to 50 million Arabic web pages (soon to be 100 million), and the site incorporates Exalead’s acclaimed Wikipedia and image search tools. In addition, TAYAIT takes advantage of Exalead’s flexible API infrastructure in integrating Encyclopedia Britannica’s® market leading plug-in for Arabic language text analysis.

A veritable tour de force realized in record time—less than three months…Together with the Dutch search engine www.ilse.nl, TAYAIT aptly demonstrates the capability of Exalead’s technology to respond to the most complex Internet search challenges, in any language.

In France, people have a daily habit of dialing 118 218 to get the number of their favorite Thai restaurant, to find out what’s playing at the local cinema, or to scout out a new dentist.

Now this telephone information service has launched a beta website at www.118218.fr that offers visitors a new, free way to access to its immense database.

Powered by Exalead’s search technology, this new hybrid web/database directory offers rich visuals and practical search refinement tools to help users get the right information—fast.

Exalead has reached an agreement with the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) that will allow Exalead to offer its public search engine users access to INIST’s massive database of English, French, Spanish and Italian-language scientific articles.

Exa-searchers will soon be able to explore this rich resource using Exalead’s practical search refinement tools, like dynamically generated lists of related terms and concepts.

Le Monde Informatique, a major weekly information technology publication from the Group
IDG, has deployed Exalead as the search engine for its portal LeMondeInformatique.fr.

This new
engine provides unified access to all site sections (Technology, IT Economy,
Small Business Solutions, Jobs, Videos, etc.) and offers users practical tools
for refining their search results, such as filtering results by the type of
document (News, Special Reports, Whitepapers, etc.), publication date, author
or related keywords.

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Playing off the words “don” and “donner” – respectively “donation” and “to give” in French – the young students who created the nonprofit Doona ( www.doona.fr/ ) are doing their part to prove that the small acts of many can add up meaningful ‘change’—in both senses of the word.

The Doona search engine sets aside a small amount of money each time a visitor clicks on one of the site’s sponsored links. Doona then distributes this money monthly to a nonprofit selected by the other nonprofits in the Doona community.

As Doona selected Exalead to power its web search, you know in advance the results will be right on target, so get clicking now in support this growing humanitarian community (and yes! you can search in English :-).

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IDOO is a global provider of free web services that let IDOO users show off their talents via website, blog, and video publishing. IDOO also offers free email and a social network of IDOO buddies. IDOO rewards talent by sharing ad revenue with its users—the more popular your contributions, the more money you earn!

IDOO has integrated the Exalead search engine into its international web portal, www.idoo.com, enabling visitors to search the web in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

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Take note gamers: SplitGames and Exalead have teamed up to develop the first search engine devoted 100% to video games: GameSkoot. With SplitGames editorial know-how and Exalead’s powerhouse search technology, GameSkoot offers perfectly accurate search results for gamers.

GameSkoot lets you search sites, blogs and forums created by gamers for gamers. You can search all the web or just within special categories like News, Tests, Cheats and Forums. GameSkoot also offers a “Hot Stuff” section with the best customized gaming news thread to be found on the Internet.

In addition, GameSkoot uses “GamesRank^tm” technology to filter out the fluff and let the most relevant gaming content rise to the top. GamesRank is SplitGames’ patent-pending content ranking technology based in equal parts on insider editorial expertise, advanced crawler technologies and user-based feedback.

We’ll leave you now with our latest GameSkoot discovery, one gamer’s original solution for boosting his scores while building his biceps…

The Marketing Team