NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Exalead, an innovative provider of search software designed to simplify all aspects of information access, today announced it has indexed more than 4 billion Web pages as part of its commitment to offer customers an easier way to find information on the World Wide Web. Business professionals, consumers, researchers and bloggers around the globe have already recognized the power of Exalead's search-by-serendipity approach. Exalead's unique, unified user interface lets individuals narrow down, refocus or broaden their search queries to explore information in a more natural way.

"This is an important milestone for the Exalead community, but our work does not end here," said Francois Bourdoncle, cofounder and chief executive officer of Exalead. "We recently consolidated our data center and implemented powerful 64-bit technology, which will allow us to double our index to eight billion Web pages by July. Exalead's 64-bit technology is incredibly efficient and requires nearly ten times fewer resources to do the job. We will continue to raise the bar in terms of database size."

The Exalead Web search engine (http://www.exalead.com/), exalead one:websearch(TM), is based on the exalead one:search(TM) 4.0 platform that was announced in October 2005 and serves as the foundation for the company's search software solutions for the desktop, workgroup, enterprise and datacenter. Designed with the user in mind, Exalead's mission has always been to provide a unified user interface - from the desktop to the enterprise and the Web - to ensure a consistent search experience.

"The Web continues to serve as a critical information source for business- related search," Bourdoncle said. "From Day One, Exalead integrated Web search into its software to provide users with a single point of access to data no matter where it resides. Popular Web search engines don't always return comprehensive results in a way that helps business professionals make informed decisions faster and with more certainty."

Advanced Query Capabilities and Linguistics

Based on real-time statistical linguistics, statistical semantics and entity extraction technology, Exalead's Web search engine offers a wide range of advanced query capabilities and linguistics features. These include: spelling suggestion, phonetic search, fuzzy matching, proximity search, word stemming, search term highlighting, multi-language search, automatic phrase detection and translation. Additionally, Exalead offers personalization options on its home page, shortcuts and personal bookmarks. A smart preview feature lets users browse results with ease.

Often, the Web page one is searching for does not contain the terms of the original search query. To help solve this challenge, Exalead's patented navigation system automatically generates a table of contents for each query by recording the information's structure. Users can then refine their search by clicking on hyperlinked categories and related topics, or by geographic location, author, format, or even language.

"With content on the Web growing exponentially, information is no longer the problem," said Sue Feldman, IDC's VP for Content Technologies. "Instead, sorting through too much information becomes the challenge. Exalead pays attention to this problem both in its technology, and in its interactive interface design. By pulling out key concepts, type of media (all types or just audio, RSS, or video) and names of people, places, and things, they make it easier to narrow down a search quickly by category. The search interface, however, is the real innovation. In addition to the list of categories, Exalead returns thumbnail images of each Web page. This makes it possible to eliminate many Web pages because they appear, for instance, to be commercial sites when you are looking for research papers. Even better, clicking on the page displays it in a preview pane at the bottom of the screen. That includes previews of videos, as well. No more clicking the "Back" button in order to get back to the search results. Exalead's interface should help streamline the Web search process."

Add the Exalead Search Bar to Your Web Site

Many Web site publishers and bloggers are already taking advantage of how simple it is to integrate the Exalead Web search engine to their Web site. Please visit the following URL to learn more: http://corporate.exalead.com/enterprise/l=en?p=utiliser.

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead (http://www.exalead.com/) is a global provider of software that is designed to simplify all aspects of information search and retrieval for organizations of all sizes.

Based on the first and only unified technology platform for desktop, intranet or Web search, Exalead offers easier deployment, administration and use than any other enterprise-type search software. This is true whether for one or thousands of desktops, a small business or global enterprise, and conforms to any technology environment. It also adapts to user habits for a uniquely satisfying search experience.

Exalead software is used by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing sports entertainment and telecommunications companies around the world. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company with principal offices in Paris.

Exalead, exalead one:search and exalead one:websearch are registered trademarks or trademarks of Exalead SA.

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