Hosted Solutions for eBusiness

When You Can't Afford to Fall Behind...

"In the time-critical newspaper industry, it is crucial that Tera customers have a seamless switch to ensure their business continuity. We could not have asked for more from any other Tier 1 search vendor."

– Michele Mottini, CEO, TeraDP

Exalead invites you to discover their range of hosted solutions. Operational in a few days, these solutions allow you to offer your users pertinent information access services with a lower total cost of ownership.

Exalead places at your service 3 types of products in ASP/SaaS mode:

• A private label search engine for either global or vertical search engine sites (White Label Search Engine)
• Search solutions for catalogs and for websites, offered for sale in partnership with NTT (Website Search and eCommerce Search)
• Exalead's Social Search, a solution to create and bring communities to life, intended for internet portals that wish to equip their sites with the very latest community-buidling tools (Baagz)

The Exalead products on demand are based on Exalead CloudView™, the solution of reference for Exalead. By choosing these solutions you benefit from all the functionalities of Exalead products while controlling your investments in software, services, hardware and maintenance.

Exalead provides a distinctive, deeply engaging hosted Web search engine solution that lets you retain 100% control of your branding, your customers—and your advertising revenue. What's more, Exalead's white label engine is sophisticated enough to let you serve up a steady stream of innovative new Web 2.0 services, yet simple enough to be implemented in days.

Innovative & User Friendly

"Exalead is a lesser known but highly functional and user-friendly search engine that actually offers the best image search capabilities on the Internet today."

– WebAdvantage

Solution Benefits

Boost User Satisfaction: Provide Guidance, Encourage Exploration
Exalead provides superior search term indexing and matching, and a patented "Search by Serendipity"TM system that guides users through the search process, making recommendations and offering suggestions and alternatives.

Offer Access To A World Class Index
Exalead allows you to tap into to an index of more than 8 billion Web pages, 2 billion Web images, and 4 million videos. The engine also offers exclusive features such as an innovative Wikipedia search module and image search refinement by size, color, layout, file type, and even a "Face" filter for narrowing search results to images containing faces.

Retain Control: Branding, Customers, Revenue
Exalead offers a fully brandable interface, a choice of monetization systems, and a range of white label goodies such as desktop search that can extend your brand right down to your user's desktop.

Cut Operating Costs
In addition to cutting your adverting related costs, if you are replacing your own engine with the Exalead Web Search ASP model, you'll realize immediate, significant savings in infrastructure, R&D, and maintenance costs while enjoying a crash-proof and totally efficient, totally automated service 24/7.

Ramp Up Quickly
The completely packaged Exalead Websearch solution can typically be implemented in a matter of days. Simply choose the configuration options that are right for you, and format the results with the Exalead HTML template and CSS settings, or provide deeper integration using XML and the engine's flexible Java API.

Product Benefits

Analytics

• Automatically analyzes and classifies content using existing and deduced metadata (embedded concepts and entities)
• Automatically identifies hidden relationships between content
• Processes unstructured content (PDFs, Word documents, Web pages, etc;) as easily as structured data (databases, structured files, etc.)
• Can add instant content depth by extracting content from external resources (e;g., select websites, partner sites, etc;)

Search

• Fuzzy search: spelling auto-correction and phonetic and approximate spelling search
• Advanced search: boolean operators, regular expressions, modification date, etc.
• Innovative Web 2.0 services:
  • Enhanced video search
  • Video (and audio) transcript searching
  • Advanced text indexing and query processing
  • Exclusive Wikipedia search
  • Advanced image search
  • Mobile search
  • Social search

Navigation

• Navigation of results by dynamically-extracted categories, user ratings, related terms, file type and size, language, author and more
• At-a-glance scanning of results with content extracts, file type icons and thumbnail images
• Rich, application-independent content previews with search term highlighting

Architecture & Performance

• Unlimited scalability (billions of documents and thousands of queries per second)
• Real-time access to new & modified data
• Support for 320+ file formats; more via API
• Support for 32- and 64-bit platforms across major operating systems
• Rapid deployment (days not months)
• Easy, web-based administration and reporting
• Cost-effective performance (indexation of 100 million documents on a single dual-processor server)

In collaboration with NTT

Intended for Media portals, institutional sites and enterprise portals, the Exalead site search ASP solution, offered in partnership with NTT, provides portals with a search engine that is a real competitive differentiator.

One-Click Ease

Until now, I've never used such an intuitive effortless search tool. I was floored by Exalead's broad range of search operators, and the one-click ease of constructing complex search queries

– Jim Justen, Technical Support

Benefits

Foster Loyalty with a Unique User Experience
Preview windows, automatic classification of results, contextual navigation by associated terms or by categories are among the functionalities that allow users to find what they seek in a few seconds and to discover something new along the way.

Instantly Enrich Your Content and Bolster Your Editorial Policy
Exalead's online configuration tools not only make it easy to install, administrate and deploy your search engine, they also enable you to set preferences for Exalead's automatic content classification, personalize the interface, and to extend your content with indexation of select sites (yours or those of your partners).

Gain Control Over Costs
Exalead site search is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no matter what the volume of web pages to index or the traffic on your web site. Offered in ASP model, this service is based on a monthly subscription. No supplementary maintenance work is necessary from your team, and you have the ability to control all the components of your investment and optimize your return.

Product Features

Analytics

• Automatically analyzes and classifies content using existing and deduced metadata (embedded concepts and entities)
• Automatically identifies hidden relationships between content
• Processes unstructured content (PDFs, Word documents, Web pages, etc;) as easily as structured data (databases, structured files, etc.)
• Can add instant content depth by extracting content from external resources (e.g., select websites, partner sites, etc;)

Search

• Fuzzy search: spelling auto-correction and phonetic and approximate spelling search
• Advanced search: boolean operators, regular expressions, modification date, etc.
• Innovative Web 2.0 services:
  • Enhanced video search
  • Video (and audio) transcript searching
  • Advanced text indexing and query processing
  • Exclusive Wikipedia search
  • Advanced image search
  • Mobile search
  • Social search

Navigation

• Navigation of results by dynamically-extracted categories, user ratings, related terms, file type and size, language, author and more
• At-a-glance scanning of results with content extracts, file type icons and thumbnail images
• Rich, application-independent content previews with search term highlighting

Architecture & Performance

• Unlimited scalability (billions of documents and thousands of queries per second)
• Real-time access to new & modified data
• Support for 320+ file formats; more via API
• Support for 32- and 64-bit platforms across major operating systems
• Rapid deployment (days not months)
• Easy, web-based administration and reporting
• Cost-effective performance (indexation of 100 million documents on a single dual-processor server)

In collaboration with NTT

According to Forrester Research, US online retail sales in the business-to-consumer market reached $175 billion in 2007 and are projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012. Fully capitalize on this growth by offering your shoppers more successful search, one-click access to related products and services, and stickier content, including user-generated content like tagging and reviews and external content such as blog and forum posts, videos and images.

Up 30% in Loyalty, 40% in Conversions

"Customer loyalty has increased by 30% as a direct result of our implementation of the Exalead search engine. Perhaps most important, we saw a 40% increase in our online catalog sales conversion rate."

– Pierre-Olivier Brial, Director of E-Business, Manutan International

Benefits

Offer Quick, Accurate Search Results
For each search request, users receive a list of highly relevant results in less than one second. Search results are grouped by a number of pre-determined criteria (for example, by price or sales promotion). Automatic spell checking and fuzzy matching features dramatically help to reduce the volume of queries returning zero answers.

Provide Innovative Navigation
To help narrow or broaden a list of search results, Exalead e-commerce reuses the organizational structure of your catalog to offer customers related categories based on their search query. Hyper-linked keywords and categories allow users to quickly find the catalog entries that best correspond to their search.

Maximize Sales
At every stage of the search, related products are listed to up-sell and cross-sell your customers and maximize your profits. Exalead site search enables you to transform the search module into an effective revenue generation source by giving you all the needed tools to control ranking, product presentation and cross reference. High end reporting tools allows you to monitor the search engine on a daily basis to fine tune performance.

Complete Mastering of Costs
Exalead site search is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no matter what the volume of web pages to index or the traffic on your web site. Offered under an ASP model, this service is based on a monthly subscription. No supplementary maintenance work is necessary from your team, and you have the ability to control all the components of your investment and optimize your return.

Product Features

Analytics

• Automatically analyzes and classifies content using existing and deduced metadata (embedded concepts and entities)
• Automatically identifies hidden relationships between content
• Processes unstructured content (PDFs, Word documents, Web pages, etc;) as easily as structured data (databases, structured files, etc.)
• Can add instant content depth by extracting content from external resources (e;g., select websites, partner sites, etc;)

Search

• Fuzzy search: spelling auto-correction and phonetic and approximate spelling search
• Advanced search: boolean operators, regular expressions, modification date, etc.
• Innovative Web 2.0 services:
  • Enhanced video search
  • Video (and audio) transcript searching
  • Advanced text indexing and query processing
  • Exclusive Wikipedia search
  • Advanced image search
  • Mobile search
  • Social search

Navigation

• Navigation of results by dynamically-extracted categories, user ratings, related terms, file type and size, language, author and more
• At-a-glance scanning of results with content extracts, file type icons and thumbnail images
• Rich, application-independent content previews with search term highlighting

Architecture & Performance

• Unlimited scalability (billions of documents and thousands of queries per second)
• Real-time access to new & modified data
• Support for 320+ file formats; more via API
• Support for 32- and 64-bit platforms across major operating systems
• Rapid deployment (days not months)
• Easy, web-based administration and reporting
• Cost-effective performance (indexation of 100 million documents on a single dual-processor server)

Create Your Own Online Communities with BAAGZ

Do you want to develop rapidly communities on your portal, increase the value of your content and provide a continual stream of innovative Web 2.0 features for your users? Exalead invites you to discover BAAGZ , a new community-building solution for online portals.

Available as a hosted service, BAAGZ is an application t you can easily embed into your portal and that gives you all the necessary tools to rapidly create your own online communities:

Features

• Next generation content creation tools: personal pages, images, video, blog posts, commentary, voting, forums, etc.
• Dynamic page profiles and messaging
• Powerful and extensible search engines
• Automatic community management tools exploiting in real time user-generated content and a massive number of RSS web feeds
• Rich monitoring, administration and deployment tools
• Integrated SEO tools

Music, sports, design, beauty, video games, travel...web surfers are actively seeking spaces to communicate with others who share their interests. Do not wait to see them express themselves elsewhere, offer them this capability today with an online space dedicated to their favorite subjects, and you will become the exchange post and the site of reference for your market.