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A hybrid Web/database search engine for the directory assistance leader,
and traffic quadrupled in one year!

Following up on the popularity of its phone directory service, 118 218 Le Numéro launched the first version of its online directory in March 2006, and chose Exalead for its final version in September.

The 118 218 challenge: Solidify its position on the Web and differentiate itself from the competition by offering superior search and an optimized customer experience.

Deployed in a matter of weeks, the service developed around Exalead technology met the expectations of 118 218, thanks to:

- A simplified search field and a search refinement panel for more precise and thorough search using various criteria
- Unparalleled hybrid search that draws not only from the directory database, but also from company websites
- An interface that offers an unmatched user experience: single search page, option to send results by SMS, reverse search, local search, maps...

The result: traffic doubled only 5 months after launching the beta version!

The bottom line, from Bruno Massiet du Biest, CEO of 118 218 Le Numéro:

"The Exalead solution went well beyond our expectations. Thanks to the Exalead and 118 218 Le Numéro teams, the solution was implemented in record time. In only 60 days, we had service available 24/7 with around 3 million monthly visitors!"

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A Leading Global Social Networking Site Connects People with
Exalead CloudView™

With more than 110 million members worldwide, Friendster, a leading global online social network, turned to Exalead to make it even easier for members to locate their friends or acquaintances on the Friendster network.

As a result, Friendster sought a new search technology that could deliver:

- Unified access to rich and voluminous content

- Simple and innovative interfaces, with intuitive navigation

- Discovery and distribution tools that are the main drivers for user satisfaction today

The Response:

- Rich Search Refinement: Search results can be filtered (by age, gender, and profile type), ability to aggregate user profile information from anywhere in Friendster's global network, etc.

- Sub-Second Response Times: Members get near real-time access to the valuable information in the user profiles

- Minimal Hardware: Exalead delivers breakthrough performance and sophisticated functionality with minimal hardware

- Positioned for Growth: As Friendster management looks to the future, they will count on Exalead to continue to meet the high information access expectations of its 110 million members

The bottom line, from Prakash Dodeja, Director of Engineering at Friendster:

"The response times on search have definitely improved with Exalead. It's important our members get near real-time access to the valuable information in our user profiles. We are pleased to say that Exalead's enhancements have helped us achieve this goal."

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400 search requests per second, at 1/6 the cost of the legacy tool!
The perfect blend of lower admin costs and a richer user experience,
for a reduced TCO and optimum agility

With 29 million monthly visits, Rightmove.co.uk is the most comprehensive and most popular real estate classifieds site in the United Kingdom.

A site whose core business depends on the performance of its technology platform and the quality of its search results must be completely reliable and offer advanced search options: Exalead CloudView satisfied all of these criteria.

Key Facts: Rightmove + Exalead CloudView

- 2 million classified ads and 29 million unique visits/month
- Robust features like Search Radius, which allows you to search within a specified distance of a given location
- A scalable solution that can be modified without affecting the existing database system
- 400 QPS (queries per second) on only 3 servers
- Cost per query reduced from 0.06 pence to 0.01 pence
- Limited financial investment

The bottom line, from Peter Brooks-Johnson, Director of Product Marketing at Rightmove:

"Thanks to Exalead, our cost per search request has dropped dramatically, from 0.06 pence to 0.01 pence, and we can now scale our site as needed at a considerably reduced cost."

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A volume of 800 queries per second
for more than 10 million Points of Interest (POI)

ViaMichelin wanted to offer European Internet users an innovative service and to generate new online revenue sources despite considerable technological constraints
(7 million km of roads, an existing solution that was difficult to scale, etc.).

Exalead met these needs by combining high performance and a reasonable TCO to create an innovative and richer online service.

The results:

- Integration in less than 4 weeks
- Service available in 7 languages
- Optimized response times (200 milliseconds)
- Exceptional ability to handle requests for up to 3.3 million itineraries and 29 million maps displayed per day
- Savings on licenses resulting from the reduced number of database queries
- New advertising opportunities

The bottom line, from Oscar Casamian, Technical Director at ViaMichelin:

"Exalead offered the best solution to our issues of quality of service and return on investment; we were able, at the same time, to reduce costs considerably and significantly enhance our site's functionality."

Yakaz: The ideal combination of quality service and controlled costs!

When entering the online classifieds market, the founders of Yakaz decided to break with tradition from the start: They didn't want to create a classified ads service that was just like all the rest. Rather, they wanted to offer a next-generation service that intelligently searched the classified ads that were already published on the Web.

What Yakaz needed:

- A differentiating service
- An effective indexing tool
- Controlled TCO
- Rapid international coverage
- Immediate ROI guaranteed

The Exalead Solution:

- Provides unified search for more than 10 million classified ads in 15 languages published on 10,000 websites
- Relevant search results with unique search refinement technologies and fuzzy matching
- Very short deployment and fast, simple installation and maintenance
- Optimal performance using minimal resources
- Easier and richer user experience thanks to unified search

Bottom line, from Mathurin Ducastelle, Co-Founder of Yakaz: "With a team of only 10 people, we offer Internet users in 10 countries the most comprehensive classified ad service on the market. We have become a pivotal and profitable company in only a few months. Our partnership with Exalead is the key to our success."

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A major first in the online directories sector: beyond the traditional directory,
a "Yellow Pages" portal dynamically enriched with extensive information

With a database of 2.3 million professionals, businesses and merchants, Yell.com is one of the leading online directories in the United Kingdom.

The Yell challenge: Enrich its online offering in order to increase visitor loyalty, and extend the length of each site visit.

Exalead met this challenge by building a custom vertical web search engine in just a few weeks.

The solution: Extraordinary mash-ups entirely adapted for the needs of Yell, combining:

- Consumer info and advice extracted from the Internet
- Related websites
- Wikipedia™ information
- Image search
- Video search

The bottom line: Yell is now the most comprehensive and richest online business directory in the United Kingdom. This success extends as well to technical performance: the system flawlessly handles nearly 180 requests per second, 24/7.

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