A few months later, he came back to our Madeleine headquarters and granted us a video interview.

He tells us about his vision of the enterprise search market - the new study he wrote for The Gilbane Group ‘Beyond Search : What to Do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work’ has just been released. He also shares his opinion about two ExaLabs projects he tested. The first one is Voxalead (available at http://voxalead.labs.exalead.com) which is a demonstration of the Speech-To-Text technology born from the collaboration between Exalead and LIMSI (Informatics Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineer Sciences).

The second demo is an occasion for you to discover an unrealeased search project called Restminer. Focused on New York Restaurants, Restminer gives the user structured information extracted from the unstructured web -dedicated press, blog posts, restaurant reviews, directories data…- with relevant tips such as sentiments analysis coming from different sources.

Here is the whole interview.

Exalead thanks Stephen Arnold for making himself available and being so professional !

Stephen Arnold’s Website : http://arnoldit.com/
Stephen Arnold’s Weblog : http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/

What is this graphic about?
It represents a semantic analysis of the relationship between terms used on the Web to speak about Intellectual Property Rights in the French language.  Each node symbolizes a word or a group of words and each edge connects two expressions when these are co-cited in more than 120 000 web pages.  Each color refers to a “semantic cluster”, which is a bunch of words than concern the same topic.

How can I get this type of graphic?
After an extraction of related terms found on Exalead databases and a manual filtering phase, the project team receives a GDF file with ordered data.  Then, the exploitation of this file by Gephi combined with a specific algorithm leads to the data “spatialization”. Then color filters highlight different semantic clusters.

Here is one of the first demonstrations of Gephi with real-time spatialization of several keyword clusters. In this video, the blue color refers to a “genetics” cluster, orange nodes relate to terms about biology and laboratories, green ones concern words speaking about controversy in the domain of GMOs and purple nodes relate to innovation and research development in biotechnology.

The brand new Exalead Image Search stands out for its freshness (you’ll find images from the news), and its user interface that is both simple and efficient.

With Exalead Image Search:

• save images on your hard drive in a single click
• organize your Favorite Images your way
• leverage your wide screen, the number of search results adapts to the biggest resolutions
• refine your search in a click, to search only faces for instance

Exalead Image Search offers an extremely clear view of your search results: only thumbnails and sizes are displayed. Detailed information appears when your mouse hovers a thumbnail.

The right column (a.k.a Zapette) is gone, giving even more space to search results. Refinement features are displayed upon focus of the search input field.

Try Exalead Image Search and drop your feedback.

After a real facelift, BAAGZ, the new community site, allows you to discover and share images, videos and articles on your favorite subjects. All of this, in a completely personalized fashion.

Discover

Passionate about sports, fashion or another topic, BAAGZ is the place where you will find the most interesting and up-to-date information, organized around thematic communities.

Share

Publish your ideas on rich pages, illustrate your topics with images and videos. Allow your friends to enjoy it and the rest of the community.

Participate

Comment on the news, meet others passionate about the same subject, vote for the best content, and express yourself in forums.

Stay connected

Select your favorite communities and receive information in real time on your profile page.

Create a community

BAAGZ gathers more than 10 thematic communities. You didn’t find what you were looking for? Suggest it and invite other members to participate.

Easy to integrate into your existing site and built on robust technologies, the BAAGZ platform allows you to construct your own communities and display your existing content.

Come and test the new application, available as a white label for web portals and and please do not hesitate to give us your feedback !

Now, you can search the Web, your PC, images, Wikipedia and videos from one single entry point FOR FREE! The same way you search on exalead.com, you can refine your search by date, related terms, file type, source, language, file size, sender, recipient…

exalead one:desktop also exists in a professional edition to search on your company’s Intranet and more. Click here for more information

We have spoken to you a lot about Charles Knight, known in the Search world for his blogs ReadWriteWeb and Altsearchengine.

On June 2, 2008 Altsearchengine blew out its first candle, and we are very proud to present our best wishes to Charles Knight and wish him much success.

Click here to read the article.

Exalead has been part of the server revolution, providing faster and more efficient service over the years.

This is not the first time nor the last time you will hear about our server improvements. In fact, we will be providing regular updates to address the evolution of traffic, the increase in the number of indexed pages and our improvements in service.

Here is a brief summary of the stages that have affected the life of our production center.

To begin, Exalead installed some machines in the offices of our service providers. But considering our growth, it was necessary to give them dedicated homes that did not use our equipment.

March 2005: We installed the first dedicated room with the opening of our Site 1, consisting of more than 10 machines shared in more than 6 racks. Yes, they were big machines! This allowed us to index 1 billion pages.

August 2005: We added around 30 servers to address the traffic, with the capability of indexing more than 2 billion pages.

March 2006: Then things really heated up, and we opened a second site and added more than 50 servers (10 racks) that enabled us to index more than 8 billion pages.

January 2007: As a result of the abundance of services and ideas that leave our laboratories, we had to add more servers to Site 1.

2007 to Present: Our laboratories continue to work and prepare for an upgrade to enrich our architecture, improve speed, and become more robust and efficient. But we had to add 20 machines to Site 1 in august 2007.

Since then, we have been actively working to put these improvements on line, so you can see the evolution, but this is not the calm before the storm…

Vote, vote vote for Exalead as your favorite alternative search engine!

Centered around technologies for the automated treatment of text, speech, music, images and video, Quaero seeks to develop new ways of addressing information access challenges in the face of the digital revolution. The effort revolves around five axes including the digitization and enrichment of content for libraries and publishers; personalized, multi-device distribution of video; better targeting for advertising; and multimedia search for the Web via the Exalead search engine.

Quaero represents a “unique opportunity” for small French companies to advance technologies in these fields even though they do not have access to the extensive R&D resources of giants like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, states François Bourdoncle, co-founder of Exalead.