[Web4lib] From Search Engine Watch: Introducing a New Web Search Contender

[Patricia F Anderson]

Yes, Exalead  has some very attractive features.  I've had it linked from 
my library's homepage for months now -- last Fall sometime. It offers true 
truncation, and I use the various thumbnail views in my courses, as well 
as the drill down options. They do a particularly nice job of suggesting 
concepts to focus your search results.

Mary mentions that Exalead doesn't update their database often, and this 
has been a vivid concern for me in using this to search. You can test this 
by searching for Google's famous patent application in Exalead 
("Information retrieval based on historical data"). The patent was 
released late March and still is not in Exalead.

Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Drew, Bill wrote:

> It looks like this could be real competition for Google.  I have just
> been playing with it and find it extremely easy to use and the
> presentation of the search results if fantastic. -- Bill Drew