The Web Search Engine Challenge

Developing, maintaining and promoting a Web search engine is a very expensive undertaking. In addition to the challenges of staying on top of today’s programmatic and infrastructure challenges, one has to keep a continual eye on evolving trends to maintain audience share. Add to these difficulties the challenge of retaining control over advertising revenue, and you face a formidable business dilemma.

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"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
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CloudView Platform Highlights or Hidden Costs of Scaling Search

Exalead's Solution

Available under both hosted and license arrangements, Exalead CloudView™ provides a distinctive, deeply engaging search engine that lets you retain 100% control of your branding, your customers—and your advertising revenue. What’s more, Exalead CloudView 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.

Boost and Control 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.

Lower Your Infrastructure Costs

In addition to cutting your adverting related costs, 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. And you don’t have to compromise on scope to realize these savings. Exalead CloudView places at your disposal the Web’s next largest index after Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, encompassing 8 billion (soon to be 16 billion) Web pages, more than 2 billion images and 4 million videos.

Retain Your Independence

Some white label search engines offer only surface integration, matching site colors and layouts but retaining a degree of branding on search forms or results. Exalead Websearch, on the other hand, integrates fully into your site, preserving 100% of your brand identity while providing an enhanced search experience.

Preserve & Extend Your Brand

Exalead not only lets you preserve your brand, it offers you an opportunity to extend your brand via white label versions of Exalead’s toolbar, search widgets and unified desktop search products.

Offer Innovative Web 2.0 Services

Vertical Environmental Search Engine for the DoD

"In a series of direct comparisons between Google, Exalead and other vendors on typical queries that personnel make, the Exalead technology generated the best results...Only three out of the first 30 results from Google were relevant to environmental manager interests. With Exalead, every result was relevant."

– Debra Mills
Manager S&T Analysis, CTC
Download the CTC Case Study or the article EnviroData Search Taps the Web's Hidden Sources

To maintain visitor interest in your search engine, Exalead continually improves its core engine and makes these enhancements available to its customers. Example innovations include:

• 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.

Enhance Loyalty, Deepen Engagement

These rich Web 2.0 services, together with Exalead’s patented "Search by Serendipity"™ system of faceted navigation will transform your engine into a first-stop site of reference for your customers, deepening loyalty and boosting referrals. Search by Serendipity 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.