Press Release

September 1, 2008

Fish4 Lands The Perfect Catch In Exalead

fish4jobs Replaces Solution From FAST Search With Next Generation Search Tool - exalead one: enterprise To Power Its CV Matching Service

Exalead, a global leader of search software for business and the web, today announced that fish4 has selected exalead one:enterprise to power the 'CV matching service' featured on the company's fish4jobs sector of the www.fish4.co.uk website. The embedded search solution from Exalead replaces the legacy FAST Search solution and will enable CVs submitted by jobseekers to be matched to suitable job specifications. Recruitment officers are then sent the best matching CVs automatically to any role they have submitted to the site.

Offering the most extensive selection of job vacancies throughout Britain, fish4jobs updates its database each day. Advertising 40,000 jobs to the 3.3m jobseekers that visit the site every month, fish4jobs is the leading recruitment site in the UK, allowing visitors to upload their CV and take psychometric tests to enable an efficient and suited job selection.

As part of the facilities available on the popular site, fish4 wanted to add a 'CV matching service' as a simple means for job seekers to submit their CV to be electronically matched to suitable jobs available. For 18 months, fish4 had deployed a search solution from FAST but found it didn't meet the business requirements of the solution and consequently decided to look for another search specialist that could meet its exacting criteria.

"Our legacy solution wasn't as effective as we hoped. We started to believe that what we required could not be met by any technology," remembers fish4 IT Director, Paul Ellerbeck. "Exalead approached us with a proof of concept confirming that its next-generation search technology exalead one:enterprise solution could drive the additional CV matching service and meet our stringent business requirements using capabilities that were not available within the incumbent solution."

"fish4jobs is taking an extremely innovative approach to matching CVs against job descriptions, which is sure to set the company further apart from its competitors," comments Exalead Managing Director for the UK and Ireland, Raymond Bentinck. "To be selected as the replacement of its legacy enterprise search solution is a credit to our next-generation enterprise search technology. We are constantly hearing that existing search products are complex, costly to implement and don't meet business' expectations. In the case of fish4, we used our new and patented search technology to ensure that the best matching CVs are found every time."

fish4 has been so impressed with exalead one:enterprise that it is going to use it across all the other fish4 departments including fish4cars, fish4homes and fish4holidays. "Exalead is redefining the search marketplace and this is just one example of where its technology can be utilised outside of where search is traditionally perceived to add value, getting right to the core of how organisations such as ours run their business effectively," adds Ellerbeck.

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About fish4jobs

fish4jobs is the UK's most popular recruitment website with over 3.3 million unique visitors per month. The site features over 80,000 new jobs every month across a wide range of sectors from retail to banking.

With a user base spread evenly across the UK, fish4jobs' blue-chip client base includes the biggest high-street recruitment consultants: Adecco, Hays and Kelly, and direct recruiters including: RBS, Threshers, T-Mobile and Powergen. For more information visit: www.fish4jobs.co.uk The National Online Recruitment Audience Survey 2007.

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of search software for businesses and the Web. Based on the first and only unified search technology platform, Exalead's products provide users with a single access point to information, regardless of format or location. Its patented Search by Serendipity(TM) navigation system adapts to user habits, providing a uniquely satisfying search experience. The Exalead CloudView line of software products is used by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing and telecommunications companies around the world. A specially-designed OEM version of the award-winning CloudView platform is also available for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that need a compelling information access solution which can be easily embedded into any business application.

Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan and Darmstadt.

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