“Where did I save this file?” If that question sounds familiar to you -or any less polite version of it- exalead one:desktop is the tool you need.

Designed for those who need unified and simplified access to all data saved on their PCs  -documents, messages, attached files, contacts, appointments, images, audio and video files…- exalead one:desktop is now available in its new version 4.6

exalead one:desktop belongs to the exalead one:search range of products.  The professional edition of exalead one:desktop enables the ability to search simultaneously on your PC, your enterprise servers and the Internet.

In addition to the existing functionalities of Exalead’s desktop product which include easy navigation, search in real-time, unlimited scalability, indexing an unlimited number of documents in 120 file formats (300 in the professional edition) and email sources (including Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and Thunderbird, etc), the new tool offers the following features:
- One click tabbing between desktop, web, image, video and Wikipedia™ search – allows for easy and intuitive navigation around the browser-based interface
- Easy personalization of tools in the navigation pane and optional tag cloud display for related terms enabling the user to further refine their results according to their needsFor the professional edition:
- Complete integration with exalead one:enterprise – for a consistent search experience on the PC, web and corporate intranet
- User interface white label functionality - enables companies to completely brand the user interface and personalize results through XML API

exalead one:desktop is also available in a free downloadable version. To get it, click here.To read the Press Release, click here.

To get more information on exalead one:desktop product, click here.

One of the most important websites in Italy, the Virgilio portal, held by Telecom Italia, inaugurated a search service for its classified ads and has integrated the Exalead search engine for these ads.

Virgilio has retained the technology exalead one:search for its performance: speed of indexing, volume, scalability. In fact, the portal indexes close to a million classified ads in different domains: automobile, motor bikes, real estate, jobs, etc. and federates more than 100 international sites (Ebay, Vivastreet…) or Italians.

In line with its objective to grow traffic and increase visibility of the portal, Virgilio wishes to also go farther with Exalead by developing new value added services.

Discover the new Virgilio service, and if you speak Italian, try it! http://ricercaannuncio.alice.it/hp_annunci.html

The end of 2007 was a busy time for signing new clients, which means we’ve had quite a number of new deployments in the first quarter of this year. Notable among them:

• Steelcase, the world leader in the office furniture industry, and its partner Capgemini, installed exalead one:enterprise on Steelcase’s corporate intranet and extranet in only two months.
• Lagardère Média, a global media leader developing, promoting and disseminating information and culture across five continents, selected Exalead as the search engine for all its Internet sites. Première.fr is one of the first sites to launch with Exalead.
• Wolters Kluwer, a French publishing company, recently deployed Exalead on its intranet to index information contained in a large repository of PDF documents.
• Three notable British websites have also selected Exalead as their search engine:
  www.croftinginquiry.org
  www.eprocurementscotland.com
  www.crownoffice.gov.uk
• Les Entreprises du Médicament (Leem), the French organization for professionals in the pharmacological industry, now uses exalead one:search as the search engine on its Extranet.

The Scottish Government selected exalead one:search to replace its internal legacy enterprise search system, and to open up online access to 25 years worth of official documents on its portal, www.scotland.gov.uk. Exalead was selected not just for its scalability and data-format versatility, but also for the very practical search assistance it provides users.

Exalead’s patented system of content presentation and navigation helps users get beyond what they type in the search box to find what they are truly looking for. It does this by guiding users through the search process, enabling them to refine their searches according to both pre-defined metadata and automatically-extracted information, like document type, creation date, subject matter, document category, related terms, and more. For, as the Scottish saying goes, “The tree doesn’t always fall at the first stroke.”

About the Scottish Government

Managing an annual budget of more than £30 billion in 2007-2008, the Scottish Government is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport.

Scottish Government portal with search powered by Exalead

To thank our sales team and ace engineers for their stellar performance in 2007, Exalead decided to send the crew to Marrakesh for some well-deserved R and R.

On the agenda: camel rides, go-carts, archery…and tech seminars! Because the quest for better search never ends…

The European Commission has approved funding for QUAERO, an advanced research and development program concerned with the automatic processing of digital multimedia content. The program involves a consortium of 23 partners (including Exalead) and is headed by the Thomson group. Read the press release on Europa, the portal site of the European Union.

On February 28, Exalead, in partnership with KMWorld and The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), hosted a webinar in which Exalead’s co-founder François Bourdoncle and Steve Rappaport, ARF’s Director of Knowledge Solutions, discussed ARF’s experience in implementing an online knowledge-base. They also discussed hot trends in information access, including the growing use of hybrid vertical search applications by businesses. If you missed the discussion, you can access it now on KMWorld’s webinar archive.

Exalead is participating in the 14^th annual Documation expo, March 12 and 13 at CNIT Paris, La Défense. This year’s theme: “Bringing content management and document management together.” You’ll find the Exalead team at stand D12.

Get a free visitor’s pass with the code EXA.

Learn more about Documation 2008.

As part of his series “Search Wizards Speak,” Stephen Arnold, principal analyst for the first three editions of CMS Watch’s “The Enterprise Search Report”, recently interviewed Exalead founder François Bourdoncle. On the table: Bourdoncle’s Alta Vista roots, the company’s guiding “search by serendipity” philosophy, its engineering approach, and its dedication to unified search across all platforms (desktop, enterprise, mobile, Web…).

Read the interview.

The release of exalead one:enterprise 4.6 offers several new enhancements that are designed to help organizations easily configure and customize business applications, including hybrid vertical search applications. In addition, exalead one:enterprise 4.6 offers new connectors for enterprise databases and a unique developer toolkit designed to easily structure unstructured data.

Also included in exalead one:enterprise 4.6 is a unique HTML extraction toolkit, which is designed to take advantage of the structural indicators that are already built-in to HTML pages. Exalead has added a variety of new features that will appeal to IT Managers and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners, including several new application programming interfaces (APIs). As a result, exalead one:enterprise can serve as a flexible platform for white box solutions.

Included is a new enterprise connector for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, allowing Microsoft users to enjoy extremely high scalability - several billions of documents - the ability to index multimedia files, enriched query processing and Exalead’s Search by Serendipity experience.

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