With more than 110 million members worldwide, Friendster, a leading global online social network, turned to Exalead to make it even easier for members to locate their friends or acquaintances on the Friendster network.
To build on its momentum in the social networking space, Friendster sought to improve its ability to distribute and aggregate the valuable profile information generated by millions of members worldwide.
As a result, Friendster sought a new search technology that could deliver:
- Unified access to rich and voluminous content
- Simple and innovative interfaces, with intuitive navigation
- Discovery and distribution tools that are the main drivers for user satisfaction today
The Response:
• Rich Search Refinement: Search results can be filtered (by age, gender, and profile type), ability to aggregate user profile information from anywhere in Friendster's global network, etc.
• Sub-Second Response Times: Members get near real-time access to the valuable information in the user profiles
• Minimal Hardware: Unlike other search platforms, Exalead delivers breakthrough performance and sophisticated functionality with minimal hardware
• Positioned for Growth: As Friendster management looks to the future, they will count on Exalead to continue to meet the high information access expectations of its 110 million members
The bottom line, from Prakash Dodeja, Director of Engineering at Friendster:
"The response times on search have definitely improved with Exalead. It's important our members get near real-time access to the valuable information in our user profiles. We are pleased to say that Exalead's enhancements have helped us achieve this goal."
