The Website Search Challenge

Just as search engines are the de facto gateways to information on the Web, so search has become the preferred way to access and navigate content on individual websites, meaning the value of your site is now directly tied to the efficacy of your site’s search utility.

However, most sites continue to rely on weak built-in search utilities (such as those packaged with CMS systems), ineffective open source tools, or inexpensive third party solutions that don’t go beyond a frustrating laundry list of links.

Exalead's Solution

Available under both hosted and license arrangements, Exalead CloudView™ provides an alternative that is feature-rich yet affordable and very simple to deploy, use and manage. Exalead CloudView offers an innovative content presentation and navigation system that fosters more successful searching, gives your site added depth, and encourages deep content exploration. (See CloudView Platform Highlights.)

Key Benefits

Increase Visitor Satisfaction

Boost satisfaction and loyalty through more successful search, deeper content, and a more engaging, multi-faceted content presentation. Exalead's patented "Search by Serendipity"™ system can automatically exploit and extend your existing content, or add instant depth with content extracted from the Web. Features include:

• Navigation of results by dynamically-extracted and/or pre-defined categories, including user ratings, geography, related terms, price, 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
• User aids like support for natural language queries and multi-language search (even using non-Latin characters), related query (and content) suggestions, and fuzzy matching tools like phonetic and approximate spelling matches and spelling corrections.

Simplify Site Maintenance

Data collection, analysis, classification and normalization tasks are fully automated with CloudView, and administrative tasks are a breeze with the platform's Web-based Management Console. Scaling is also a snap: simply add on inexpensive commodity hardware as needed—no painful migration required!

Boost and Control Revenue

For sites that depend on advertising revenue, Exalead’s accurate results, uniquely satisfying user experience and innovative, continually updated search features help users more easily find what they are looking for while encouraging them to explore related content. This results in more search queries, extends the length of site visits and boosts the total number of page views—all of which translates to higher advertising-related revenue. In addition, Exalead is not an advertising provider, furnishing only organic results, so you have the flexibility to deliver ads via your partner of choice, or retain 100% of your ad revenue by using your own monetization system.

Cost Effective, Feature-Rich

"We selected Exalead's search technology because it fulfills our need to make navigation around our internal and external sites as easy and efficient as possible. Compared with other offerings in the search market, Exalead is a cost effective, feature-rich choice."

– Douglas Campbell, Scottish Government eSearch Project Manager

Offer Innovative Web 2.0 Services

Stay ahead of the competition with a continual flow of innovations:

• Enhanced video search
• Video (and audio) transcript searching
• Advanced text indexing and query processing
• Exclusive Wikipedia search
• Advanced image search
• Mobile search
• Social search

Test-drive the latest Exalead innovations at Exalabs.

Key Features

Powerful Content Extraction and Analytics

• Automatically analyzes and classifies unstructured and structured content using existing and deduced metadata (embedded concepts and entities)
• Can add instant content depth by extracting content from external resources (e.g. select websites, partner sites, etc.)

More Successful Search and Discovery

• Patented 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 (content extracts, file type icons and thumbnail images) and rich, application-independent content previews with search term highlighting

Architecture

• Unlimited scalability (queries processed and documents indexed)
• Support for 320+ file formats; more via API
• Rapid deployment, easy administration