Media Coverage - 2005

12-05-2005 Infoworld by Mick Heck

Find things quickly and naturally.

exalead one:desktop professional edition may be a sign of better enterprise search to come.
For now, I give one:desktop a conditional recommendation. If the company properly executes the forthcoming parts, it will be a strong contender in enterprise search.

11-23-2005 About.com by Wendy Boswell

Exalead - A Good General Purpose Search Engine With Lots of Extras.

What is Exalead?
Exalead is a good general purpose search engine, with lots of interesting features such as a personalized home page, filetype search, and individual site thumbnails available in search results. Exalead's search results also have a LOT to offer the searcher, as I'll detail in the next paragraph.

11-15-2005 EWeek.com

Internet Search Needs New Tack in 2006

(...) There's always room for smaller players, but challenging the top four or five is going to be very, very difficult," Searchenginewatch's Price said. Two oft-mentioned examples of "verticals," as they are known, are Topix.Net, which has more than 300,000 topically based Web sites populated with news from more than 10,000 sources, and Exalead, a Europe-based, enterprise-focused search company that entered the U.S. market in October.

11-15-2005 Newsfactor Magazine

"Search Services Get Down to Business"

"Right now, using desktop, enterprise, and Web search is a clumsy process. Everyone has [their] own desktop search and uses different Web search, and [users] get results on three different screens. [They] can't do serendipity, zoom in, and zoom out of search results", said François Bourdoncle, president of Exalead.

11-14-2005 Federal Computer Week by Michael Hardy

French firm enters U.S. search market; Undaunted by Google's clout, Exalead eyes government search customers

A French company called Exalead doesn't see it that way. Although Google seems to have the name recognition mojo in the search market, Exalead has released exalead one:search 4.0, an enterprise search platform for U.S. government agencies and businesses.

11-11-2005 Internetnews.com by Erin Joyce

Other Wonders of Search, Web Services

If you haven't tried it (Exalead) out yet, the free trial is worth the trip. You might be surprised at how effectively this version digs deeper into the Web for you, and goes beyond the ranking algorithms results, not to mention how it finds stuff you didn't even know you had on your computer.

11-10-2005 Phil Bradley's Blog

It's no secret that I adore Exalead.

If you've still not tried it yet, I would really recommend it to you.

November 2005 Intelligententerprise by Doug Henschen

Analysis: Turning Up the Heat on Enterprise Search

And as if competition from the likes of Google and Microsoft on the one hand and IBM on the other wasn't enough, conventional enterprise search vendors also face competition from upstarts such Exalead, which on October 31 announced a desktop search tool that can become the corporate user's interface to workgroup and enterprise offerings. The company also indexes two-billion-plus Internet pages so, like Google and X1 Technologies, Exalead champions the Holy Trinity of desktop, enterprise and Internet search. But the company asserts its desktop interface is unique in tapping all three in a single search. (...)

11-07-2005 Information Today by Paula Hane

NewBreaks: Exalead Brings Its Search Technology to the U.S.

After 5 years of providing its search software to European markets, Exalead (http://www.exalead.com) has announced the availability of its unified search technology platform - exalead one:search - for American businesses...

11-05-2005 Phil Bradley's Blog

Exalead

Link: Exalead. This is quite sweet - run your cursor over the 'Exalead' logo and you'll now see exactly how to pronounce it. The link doesn't go anywhere as yet, but it will do shortly.

11-01-2005 Desktop Pipeline Blog by David DeJean

Found: A Very Interesting Search

But search was just...search. You put in a search term, and you got back a list, you looked at the top two or three hits and if you didn't find what you wanted you started over, right? Lather, rinse, repeat.
But a visit last week with François Bourdoncle, cofounder and chief executive officer of Exalead, gave me a lot to think about...

10-31-2005 The Gilbane Report

Exalead Brings Enterprise Search Platform to U.S.; Releases Desktop Search

Exalead, a provider of search software announced the availability of its unified search technology platform, exalead one:search, for American businesses. The exalead one:search platform serves as the foundation for Exalead's portfolio of integrated search products, from desktop to enterprise and the Web...

10-31-2005 InfoWorld by Cathleen Moore

Web search gets down to business; Search companies try out-Googling Google on Web search for businesses

(...) Another vendor, Exalead, on Monday is launching Version 4.0 of its exalead one:search, a platform that serves as a framework for integrated products for desktop, workgroup, enterprise, and Web search...

10-31-2005 KM World

The French Connection

Exalead, which has a five-year track record in Europe, has introduced its unified search technology platform--exalead one:search--for American businesses...

10-31-2005 Desktop Pipeline by David DeJean

Exalead Brings Search Application To U.S.

After five years of marketing its search technology in Europe, Exalead, a French software firm with its roots in Digital Equipment Corp.'s Alta Vista search engine, has brought its technology platform - Exalead one:search - to the American marketplace with Exalead one:desktop Professional Edition.

10-31-2005 InformationWeek

Exalead Brings Search Application To U.S.

A French software firm introduces its desktop tool that it claims makes for more precise searches, with versions to come for workgroups, the data center, and the enterprise--all based on a common search technology and user interface.

10-31-2005 Posted by Whit Andrews, Vice President

Exalead and Search

Take a look at Exalead, the newest officially launched Google competitor (which, like Google, also has an enterprise product, available for sale in the U.S. as of next week). Among its founders is François Bourdoncle, who was instrumental in the development of AltaVista's LiveTopics, which were precursor of mapping models like those you see now at Kartoo or Clusty...

10-19-2005 SearchEngineWatch.com

Exalead's Home Page Gets a New Look

Exalead, the Paris-based general-purpose web engine we've blogged about several times during the past year, has redesigned their home page. Although total database size means little, they have also posted an increase to the size of Exalead database now passing the two billion page mark according (according to the site).

10-03-2005 BusinessWeek by Ben Elgin

Managing Google's Idea Factory; Marissa Mayer helps the search giant out-think its rivals

(...) It's increasingly important, too. Google's rocket ride has attracted a swarm of competitors, from giants Microsoft and Yahoo! to upstarts like Technorati and Exalead...

09-01-2005 EContent by Mary Ellen Bates

You still Google? That is so last week.

This is one reason I'm enamored of Exalead, a still-in-beta search engine that has advanced search features to die for ("sounds like," approximate spelling, and proximity search, for example).

07-15-2005 Library Journal by Cheryl LaGuardia, Volume 130, Issue 12

InfoTech - E-Views and Reviews

Take a look.
Exalead (beta.exalead.com/search/) is a new search engine built from a unique perspective.

05-01-2005 EContent by Heidi Gautshchi, ISSN: 1525-2531; Volume 28; Issue 5

Search in Any Language

Depending on the engine, language options are tucked away under different headings brought to light after a little exploratory clicking: Exalead (advanced search), MSN Search (search settings), Yahoo! (advanced), and Google (language tools) all offer the possibility to limit the language and the country of the search results...

02-01-2005 Searcher, Kenneth Fink, ISSN: 1070-4795; Volume 13; Issue 2

Search, blog, succeed: lessons from the Internet Librarian 2004 Conference--Monterey

One new search engine to watch, according to Price, is Exalead. Exalead has string searching as well as a tool lacking in many search engines--a "near" proximity operator, which searches within 15 words in either direction...