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

[Drew, Bill]

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


Introducing a New Web Search Contender
Mary Ellen Bates
05/24/2005


The full article can be found online at the following location:
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3507266



These days, web search is dominated by giants, and it's rare to see the
emergence of a new potentially world-class search engine. Meet Exalead,
a powerful search tool with features not offered by the major search
engines.

Exalead is a fairly new search engine from France, introduced in October
2004 and still officially in beta. Having passed the one-billion page
mark in 2005, it's still 1/8th the size of Google or Yahoo, but what's a
few billion pages among friends? Actually, after a certain point, size
really doesn't matter. The key factors in evaluating a search engine
should include timeliness, ability to handle ambiguity, and plenty of
power search tools. Exalead does a great job, at least on two of these
three criteria.

When you first get to the Exalead site, you'll see a stylishly
minimalist page. But click through to the advanced search page to
appreciate the full scope of Exalead's search features.