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Rightmove

Real estate portal

» The leading site for real estate classifieds in the United Kingdom
400 search requests per second, at 1/6 the cost of the legacy tool! The perfect blend of lower admin costs and a richer user experience, for a reduced TCO and optimum agility.

With 29 million monthly visits, Rightmove.co.uk is the most comprehensive and most popular real estate classifieds site in the United Kingdom.

A site whose core business depends on the performance of its technology platform and the quality of its search results must be completely reliable and offer advanced search options: Exalead CloudView satisfied all of these criteria.

Key Facts: Rightmove + Exalead CloudView
- 2 million classified ads and 29 million unique visits/month
- Robust features like Search Radius, which allows you to search within a specified distance of a given location
- A scalable solution that can be modified without affecting the existing database system
- 400 QPS (queries per second) on only 3 servers
- Cost per query reduced from 0.06 pence to 0.01 pence
- Limited financial investment
The bottom line, from Peter Brooks-Johnson, Director of Product Marketing at Rightmove:

"Thanks to Exalead, our cost per search request has dropped dramatically, from 0.06 pence to 0.01 pence, and we can now scale our site as needed at a considerably reduced cost."

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ViaMichelin

Tourism information portal

» The number two tourism website in Europe
A volume of 800 queries per second for more than 10 million Points of Interest (POI).

ViaMichelin wanted to offer European Internet users an innovative service and to generate new online revenue sources despite considerable technological constraints (7 million km of roads, an existing solution that was difficult to scale, etc.).

Exalead met these needs by combining high performance and a reasonable TCO to create an innovative and richer online service.

The results:
- Integration in less than 4 weeks
- Service available in 7 languages
- Optimized response times (200 milliseconds)
- Exceptional ability to handle requests for up to 3.3 million itineraries and 29 million maps displayed per day
- Savings on licenses resulting from the reduced number of database queries
- New advertising opportunities
The bottom line, from Oscar Casamian, Technical Director at ViaMichelin:

"Exalead offered the best solution to our issues of quality of service and return on investment; we were able, at the same time, to reduce costs considerably and significantly enhance our site's functionality."

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118 218 Le Numéro

Telephone directory service provider

» The number one phone directory service in France
A hybrid Web/database search engine for the directory assistance leader, and traffic quadrupled in one year!

Following up on the popularity of its phone directory service, 118 218 Le Numéro launched the first version of its online directory in March 2006, and chose Exalead for its final version in September.

The 118 218 challenge: Solidify its position on the Web and differentiate itself from the competition by offering superior search and an optimized customer experience.

Deployed in a matter of weeks, the service developed around Exalead technology met the expectations of 118 218, thanks to:
- A simplified search field and a search refinement panel for more precise and thorough search using various criteria
- Unparalleled hybrid search that draws not only from the directory database, but also from company websites
- An interface that offers an unmatched user experience: single search page, option to send results by SMS, reverse search, local search, maps...
The result: traffic doubled only 5 months after launching the beta version!

The bottom line, from Bruno Massiet du Biest, CEO of 118 218 Le Numéro:

"The Exalead solution went well beyond our expectations. Thanks to the Exalead and 118 218 Le Numéro teams, the solution was implemented in record time. In only 60 days, we had service available 24/7 with around 3 million monthly visitors!"

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Yell

Professional telephone directory

» The leading online directory in the UK
A major first in the online directories sector: beyond the traditional directory, a "Yellow Pages" portal dynamically enriched with extensive information.

With a database of 2.3 million professionals, businesses and merchants, Yell.com is one of the leading online directories in the United Kingdom.

The Yell challenge: Enrich its online offering in order to increase visitor loyalty, and extend the length of each site visit.

Exalead met this challenge by building a custom vertical web search engine in just a few weeks.

The solution: Extraordinary mash-ups entirely adapted for the needs of Yell, combining:
- Consumer info and advice extracted from the Internet
- Related websites
- Wikipedia™ information
- Image search
- Video search
The bottom line: Yell is now the most comprehensive and richest online business directory in the United Kingdom. This success extends as well to technical performance: the system flawlessly handles nearly 180 requests per second, 24/7.

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Yakaz

Classified ads search engine

» Search among more than 3 million classified ads
Yakaz: the ideal combination of quality service and controlled costs

When entering the online classifieds market, the founders of Yakaz decided to break with tradition from the start: They didn't want to create a classified ads service that was just like all the rest. Rather, they wanted to offer a next-generation service that intelligently searched the classified ads that were already published on the Web.

What Yakaz needed:
- A differentiating service
- An effective indexing tool
- Controlled TCO
- Rapid international coverage
- Immediate ROI guaranteed
The Exalead Solution:
- Provides unified search for more than 10 million classified ads in 15 languages published on 10,000 websites
- Relevant search results with unique search refinement technologies and fuzzy matching
- Very short deployment and fast, simple installation and maintenance
- Optimal performance using minimal resources
- Easier and richer user experience thanks to unified search
Bottom line, from Mathurin Ducastelle, Co-Founder of Yakaz: "With a team of only 10 people, we offer Internet users in 10 countries the most comprehensive classified ad service on the market. We have become a pivotal and profitable company in only a few months. Our partnership with Exalead is the key to our success."

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Exalead.fr

Public Web search engine

» Making Web search simple, fun and effective

Online since 2001, Exalead's Web search engine has now indexed 8 billion web pages (soon to be 16 billion), 2 billion images, and 4 million videos.

Among the features of this application:

- Auto-completion of the request as it is entered, suggesting terms from the index associated with the request that you are entering

- Display of thumbnails to instantly qualify results and, especially, a unique search refinement panel, which allows you, with a few clicks, to narrow or expand your search based on dynamically extracted categories

- Ability to customize the search refinement panel to meet your unique needs. By clicking the "tools" icon at the upper right of the navigation pane, you can choose the search refinement categories you want to see

- Related searches displayed above the search field, so you can rapidly select queries related to your original search

- Option to refine searches by language and country, presented in the form of pie charts for results

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Exalead Wikipedia

Encycopedia search

» Adding a whole new dimension to the world's most well-known online encyclopedia
Nearly 1 million Wikipedia articles indexed and delivered. One of the best Wikipedia search tools in the world.

The thumbnails are generated from images in the encyclopedia. The tag cloud lets you narrow your search according to Wikipedia's XML categories, related terms taken automatically from the results, and other named entities (people, places, organizations, etc.).

You can search within all language versions of Wikipedia simultaneously, but you can also restrict your search to a specific geographic location (language).

All results include information on:
- the Wikipedia categories of the article
- the famous people mentioned in the article
- the organizations and places related to the article
One click on these terms extends the search to include the selected term, thus enabling the user to navigate freely throughout the encyclopedia.

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Exalabs

Research laboratory

» Exalead's online research lab for exploring the innovations of our R&D teams
Exalabs gathers the latest proposals and inspirations from our R&D labs onto a platform that can be accessed by everyone.

In this space users can try out new experiments in enterprise and Web search, produced from our engineers' imaginations and devised in collaboration with clients and partners.

Some of our projects:
- Miiget, a celebrity search engine
- Wikifier, a module for automatically enhancing web page content with Wikipedia information
- Voxalead, searches for information inside videos, rather than simply metadata like titles
- Chromatik, advanced image search based on color
- Tweepz, a search engine for finding people who are using Twitter
- Sourcier, a service designed to facilitate access to public data on subterranean water quality, created in collaboration with the BRGM (France’s Bureau of Geological and Mining Research)
Would you like to know more? Visit labs.exalead.com.

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