Media Coverage - 2006

12-17-2006 Herald Tribune

European search engines take on Google

Google may dominate Internet search in most of the world, but a surging European market for Internet advertising, combined with demand for locally focused searches, is creating space at the table, analysts say.(...)
Among the European businesses aiming for that space are Exalead, based in Paris and focused on searches within company networks. (...)
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11-28-2006 SearchEngineWatch

Exalead CEO Warns Of "Google Monster" & Closed Yahoo & Microsoft

The Multilingual Search Blog covers Exalead CEO François Bourdoucle taking a big stick and swinging at Google in a keynote talk at SES Paris. He positions his own service as potentially the savior for those in Europe worried about the "Google monster." Beyond Google, he also criticizes Yahoo and Microsoft for collaborating on a "closed" sitemaps protocol. I'd say the Cold War against American-based search engines is going up a notch...
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10-30-2006 Washington Post

Index to your heart's content

Exalead Inc., a New York search software company, has new versions of its unified search products for desktop and workgroup environments.
The new releases of exalead one now have no indexing limitations, regardless of documents' format or location, at no additional cost. As a standalone product, exalead one:desktop 4.5 offers unified access to information on a hard drive, in applications such as e-mail or on the Web.

10-18-2006 SDA India

Exalead Upgrades Search Software

Exalead has unveiled new versions of its unified search software products for desktop and workgroup environments. The new releases, exalead one:desktop 4.5 and exalead one:workgroup 4.5 aim to offer new performance enhancements as well as support for new file formats and e-mail clients. (...)
The new functionality of release 4.5 builds on Exalead's user interface and patented navigation technology, which allows users to search by serendipity. (...)
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10-10-2006 Optimize magazine

How Manutan International used search to increase customer sales and loyalty ?

In the online retail industry, choosing the right search engine is critical to your business's e-commerce strategy. Search connects your customers and employees to your products. The right search engine can increase loyalty and satisfaction among customers and, most important, can also increase sales. (...)
After considering multiple search engines, we deployed the one:enterprise product from Exalead, for a variety of reasons. It easily integrated with our e-commerce system, so we were able to deploy it across our European subsidiaries in only a few days without making changes to the platform itself. It also included linguistics capabilities for more than 54 languages, which meant that we didn't have to develop a customized solution for each country.
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07-28-2006 InfoWorld

exalead and Siderean guide users down differing paths to data troves

As a rule, search engines should return reliable results. So when unanticipated responses appear, it's possible that the initial query was too broad or ambiguous. To help users sharpen their searches, vendors have turned to grouping results into manageable collections. Clustering and faceted categorization are two popular methods (...).
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06-12-2006 CIO.com

Why Has Search Become So Hard? By François BOURDONCLE

Here are seven tips to help find the right search engine for your business and search better in the process.
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06-09-2006 Le Vif - L'Express

An alternative search

To simplify (...) I would say that we are at the third generation of search engines (...). Now, it is a question of helping the user to make a choice, in particular, by a system of idea association. On the matter, I think that Exalead has an advantage. We present a more neutral profile (...), said François Bourdoncle. In using the beta version of the engine, we can tell that Exalead search is focused on the user and not on the structure of the database (...). « With Exalead, we're counting on a public who wants to know more (...).
We're trying to find the right balance between the functionality and the ease of use. »

05-31-06 DailyMaily

The engine of Exalead proposes many innovations and interesting options of research which can become a standard in the field of search of the futur.

(...) « today the approach changed, beyond organisational tools of search, we want to extend it to the individual user or more exactly to any person who needs a search engine. In other words: we target everyone. » Says François Bourdoncle.
(...) Checking made by DailyMaily arises that Exalead offers many interesting characteristics, and when one is accustomed to it, it's hard to understand how we sought without before.
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05-01-06 Information Today

Exalead Offers Unified Search Experience

Exalead's CEO and co-founder François Bourdoncle talks about the company's plans for the future and the European Quaero project, which he calls a "Franco-German initiative."
« Exalead officially entered the U.S. market for enterprise search last fall, but its Web search engine had already garnered interest from search engine experts who liked its AltaVista-like capabilities. I recently talked with the company's co-founder and CEO to find out about its plans and its involvement in the interesting European Quaero project.(...) »

04-25-2006 Technologyreview.com

The Enterprise Approach to Search

A French search company believes the key to better Web-based search comes from the corporate world. Exalead, a Paris-based company, is experimenting with a new search model. It believes by combining the approach of "enterprise" search and Google-like page-ranking search, individuals will be able to surf the ever-expanding Web more thoroughly and efficiently.
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04-25-2006 InformationWeek

France Launches 'Quaero' Search Engine Project

In hopes of stimulating local technological, industrial, and economic development, President Jacques Chirac of France has announced a 2 billion euro (about $2.5 billion) plan to back a series of projects, including one on a Franco-German search engine intended to rival Google.
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04-23-2006 ZDNet

Exalead enters the search ring

Exalead, based in France, hopes to make a big mark in enterprise search as well as in consumer Web search. I talked with François Bourdoncle, CEO of Exalead, last week about his search services and plans for the U.S. market...
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04-06-2006 Intranet Journal

Exalead Enterprise Loaded with Features for Search

Exalead One: Enterprise, a business-class search service that's earned a strong following by providing impressive search results, promises to further please its users and gain even more admirers with the newly released version 4.0. The new version delivers faster performance, tighter security, and a more flexible interface.
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04-03-2006

BioPassword Inc. says it can prove it.

..."You must integrate security into your search infrastructure," says François Bourdoncle, who runs Paris-based Exalead SA. "A search engine can reveal information to the wrong people." Exalead is making its entry into the U.S. market this year. Its One:Search software integrates with Active Directory so end users get responses only to queries they have rights to see, according to Bourdoncle...
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02-20-2006 Corriere della Sera

Chi cerca trova, forse

Il motore di ricerca francese Exalead è poco noto, eppure è il secondo preferito dagli internauti. Nel confronto con Yahoo ! vince sulla musica. Non sull'attualità

02-15-2006 SmallBizPipeline

Exalead Debuts Simplified Search For Small Businesses

Exalead today announced exalead one: workgroup 4.0, an enterprise-class search product designed for small businesses with as few as two employees...

02-15-2006 KMWorld

Workgroup Search

Exalead has announced the availability of exalead one:workgroup 4.0, an enterprise search product designed for small businesses with as few as two or more employees, or a specialized division within a larger organization.

02-10-2006 Internetnews.com, By Erin Joyce

Exalead CEO, François Bourdoncle, Featured in internetnews.com profile

Internetnews.com's Erin Joyce sat down with Bourdoncle to discuss what sets Exalead apart from its competitors, including its search-by-serendipity approach. The Q&A also features information on Exalead's latest announcements and changes in the search industry.