The Web Search Engine Challenge

Developing, maintaining and promoting a web search engine is a very expensive undertaking. In addition to the challenges of staying on top of today’s programmatic and infrastructure challenges, one has to keep a continual eye on evolving trends to maintain audience share. Add to these difficulties the challenge of retaining control over advertising revenue, and you face a formidable business dilemma.

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"Exalead is a lesser known but highly functional and user-friendly search engine that actually offers the best image search capabilities on the Internet today."

– WebAdvantage

Exalead's Solution

Available under both hosted and license arrangements, Exalead CloudView provides a distinctive, deeply engaging search engine lets you retain 100% control of your branding, your customers—and your advertising revenue. What’s more, Exalead CloudView is sophisticated enough to let you serve up a steady stream of innovative new Web 2.0 services, yet simple enough to be implemented in days.

Boost and control revenue

Exalead’s accurate results, uniquely satisfying user experience and innovative, continually updated search features help users more easily find what they are looking for while encouraging them to explore related content. This results in more search queries, extends the length of site visits and boosts the total number of page views—all of which translates to higher advertising-related revenue.

In addition, Exalead is not an advertising provider, furnishing only organic results, so you have the flexibility to deliver ads via Exalead's partner (download our Search 123 partner sheet), select a third party partner of your own, or retain 100% of your ad revenue by using your own monetization system.

Lower your infrastructure costs

In addition to cutting your adverting related costs, you’ll realize immediate, significant savings in infrastructure, R&D, and maintenance costs while enjoying a crash-proof and totally efficient, totally automated service 24/7. And you don’t have to compromise on scope to realize these savings. Exalead CloudView places at your disposal the web’s next largest index after Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, encompassing 8 billion web pages, more than 2 billion images and 4 million videos.

Retain your independence

Some white label search engines offer only surface integration, matching site colors and layouts but retaining a degree of branding on search forms or results. Exalead Websearch on the other hand integrates fully into your site, preserving 100% of your brand identity while providing an enhanced search experience

Preserve & extend your brand

Exalead not only lets you preserve your brand, it offers you an opportunity to extend your brand via white label versions of Exalead’s toolbar and unified desktop search product.

Offer innovative Web 2.0 services

To maintain visitor interest in your search engine, Exalead continually improves its core engine and makes these enhancements available to its customers. Example innovations include:

• Enhanced video search
• Video (and audio) transcript searching
• Advanced text indexing and query processing
• Exclusive Wikipedia search
• Advanced image search
• Mobile search
• Social search

Enhance loyalty, deepen engagement

These rich Web 2.0 services, together with Exalead’s patented system of guided navigation will transform your engine into a first-stop site of reference for your customers, deepening loyalty and boosting referrals.