Exalead Enhances One:Search Platform With Vertical Search Capability

Exalead Enhances One:Search Platform With Vertical Search Capability

Wikipedia Application First To Take Advantage Of Exalead’s Patented Search By Serendipity Navigation Technology

Exalead, provider of search software for business and the Web, today announced the addition of a new Wikipedia search application in its exalead one:search(tm) platform, the technology foundation for Exalead’s product portfolio – from the desktop to the enterprise and the Web.

Wikipedia has become a popular Web destination for a wide range of information. Now users of Exalead’s Web search engine (www.exalead.com) can search, browse and navigate the Wikipedia database (www.wikipedia.org) with greater ease and satisfaction than ever before by making use of the company’s new vertical search capability that has been added to the exalead one:search technology platform. The Wikipedia search application, the first in a series of vertical search functions from Exalead, can be launched by clicking a Wikipedia tab on the Exalead search engine’s home page.

“Exalead is committed to continuously delivering innovations that make search easier,” explained Exalead’s co-founder, president and chief executive officer Bourdoncle. “Exalead believes that people should have the same experience whether they search on their business’ network or on the Web. The new Wikipedia search application added to our exalead one:search platform is a tangible output of this goal and demonstrates the power and scalability of Exalead’s platform.”

The new Wikipedia search feature signals an evolution of Exalead’s patented Search by Serendipity navigation technology which allows a search to be broadened or narrowed in just a few clicks.

“By employing Search by Serendipity navigation to vertical search, people looking through a database like Wikipedia from exalead.com are able to move from one topic of interest to another, from one concept to the next quickly and easily,” says Bourdoncle. “Wikipedia is called ‘The Free Encyclopedia’ on the Web. Exalead’s new Wikipedia search application makes thumbing through that information resource quicker and more satisfying.”

The exalead one:search platform has always leveraged entity extraction to automatically return a list of related topics and categories based on the original search query. Now, with the integration of topic maps, all related terms and categories will be presented in the form of a tag cloud. Users can then click on a word in the cloud to refine the query.

For more information about Exalead and its enterprise search products, please visit www.corporate.exalead.com/enterprise or visit Exalead’s Web search engine at www.exalead.com.

About Exalead

Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of software that is designed to simplify all aspects of information search and retrieval for organisations 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, including Air Liquid, BNP Paribas and Carlson Wagonlits. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company.

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