7526 0 3 econsultancy_xml <p>Other winning search engines were 9online (up 9.9%), Orange (up 4.4%) and Ask (up 4.2%) - but Exalead's biggest growth still only saw it claim a 0.07% share of the French search market, against Google's 89.33%.</p> <p>Powered by Serendipity search technology, the site has risen to prominence in recent months, is available in multi-lingual pan-European versions that include a UK version and has a deal to provide the search for the European Union's planned Quaero multimedia search service.</p> <p>Exalead last week scored <a href="http://www.exalead-blog.com/index.php?2007/06/15/51-exalead-propulse-le-118-218#co">a deal to power</a> the search service for a French 118 directory enquiries service.</p> <p>CEO Francois Bourdoncle this week <a href="http://altsearchengines.com/2007/06/20/the-view-from-the-corner-office-exalead/">said</a> the site was getting a million unique monthly users and had indexed 8bn web pages, which he said made it the third largest web search index.</p> <p>Blogger Daniel Olivo-Ruza <a href="http://www.olivo-ruza.de/privat/?p=28">wrote</a>: </p> <blockquote> <p> <em>"Exalead is a good point to start your Google-less day. This search engine is really fast and has some nice features. One is a small preview picture of the pages listed in the result windows, so you can check and sort out unimportant results only by a quick look at the thumbnail instead of going to the page itself."</em> </p> </blockquote> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph>Other winning search engines were 9online (up 9.9%), Orange (up 4.4%) and Ask (up 4.2%) - but Exalead's biggest growth still only saw it claim a 0.07% share of the French search market, against Google's 89.33%.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Powered by Serendipity search technology, the site has risen to prominence in recent months, is available in multi-lingual pan-European versions that include a UK version and has a deal to provide the search for the European Union's planned Quaero multimedia search service.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Exalead last week scored <Link URL="http://www.exalead-blog.com/index.php?2007/06/15/51-exalead-propulse-le-118-218#co" Window="New">a deal to power</Link> the search service for a French 118 directory enquiries service.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>CEO Francois Bourdoncle this week <Link URL="http://altsearchengines.com/2007/06/20/the-view-from-the-corner-office-exalead/" Window="New">said</Link> the site was getting a million unique monthly users and had indexed 8bn web pages, which he said made it the third largest web search index.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Blogger Daniel Olivo-Ruza <Link URL="http://www.olivo-ruza.de/privat/?p=28" Window="New">wrote</Link>: </Paragraph> <Block> <Paragraph> <Quote>"Exalead is a good point to start your Google-less day. This search engine is really fast and has some nice features. One is a small preview picture of the pages listed in the result windows, so you can check and sort out unimportant results only by a quick look at the thumbnail instead of going to the page itself."</Quote> </Paragraph> </Block> </FormattedContent> 2007-06-21T09:42:00+01:00 0 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>French search engine Exalead is now growing its user base faster than Google or any of its rivals.</strong> </p> <p>The site grew its share 16.1% between April and May, while Google grew 0.4%, Yahoo! fell 7.1% and MSN was down 5.6%, according to XiTi Monitor.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>French search engine Exalead is now growing its user base faster than Google or any of its rivals.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>The site grew its share 16.1% between April and May, while Google grew 0.4%, Yahoo! fell 7.1% and MSN was down 5.6%, according to XiTi Monitor.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 1388 363624 Exalead surges in French search false 2007-06-21T12:00:00+01:00 exalead-surges-in-french-search 2009-04-28T22:52:13+01:00 2009-04-28T22:52:13+01:00 386