Vertical Search Platform includes image search capabilities.June 1, 2007 -
Exalead one:search platform(TM) offers users of exalead.com search engine access to over one billion images and ability to narrow-down image results through integration of LTU Technologies' facial recognition software. Regardless of where search occurs, on web or inside firewall, users can find relevant images though Search By Serendipity(TM) navigation technology. Searches can be narrowed or broadened by clicking on related terms or searching by specific keyword.
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Original Press release
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Exalead Extends Vertical Search Versatility of Exalead One:Search Platform with New Image Search Application
Another Demonstration of Exalead's Ability to Crawl the Web for Highly- Targeted Content; exalead.com Becomes Image Resource for 1+ Billion Images
NEW YORK, May 8 -- Exalead(R), a global provider of search software for business and the Web, today announced the addition of a new image search application for its exalead one:search platform(TM). This latest vertical search application from Exalead offers users of its search engine, exalead.com, access to more than 1 billion images plus the ability to easily narrow down image results through the integration of LTU Technologies' leading facial recognition software.
"This image search application, along with Exalead's recently implemented Wikipedia(TM) vertical search capability, demonstrates our unique ability to tailor Web crawling to index specific types of information and different types of multi-media content," said Francois Bourdoncle, Exalead's cofounder, president and chief executive officer. "It also underscores the power and precision of our exalead one:search technology, the only one of its kind capable of handling Web and enterprise crawling and search on a single platform."
Search for Images, by Serendipity
The ability to easily and quickly find relevant images is critical no matter where you're searching - on the Web or inside the firewall. Exalead's patented Search By Serendipity(TM) navigation technology lets users quickly narrow or broaden a search by clicking on an automatically generated list of related terms or by choosing to search within results by a more specific keyword.
A highlight of the new image search application gives users new ways to refocus an image search based on several key criteria to help find the most relevant image in just a few clicks. "We are very glad to provide this unique face recognition feature to exalead.com and we look forward to future collaborations in image and video search with them," said Chahab Nastar, LTU Technologies' chief executive officer. Image search functions include:
-- Image size: Filter images by small, medium or large to find the right image quickly
-- Wallpaper: Sort results by an image's resolution
-- Image Color: Narrow down search results to only black and white images, or those in color
-- Image Type: Embedded facial recognition software lets users easily find headshots of their friends or favorite celebrities
-- File Type: Filter images by format (JPEG, GIF or PNG)
"The level of flexibility offered in the image search application is a reflection of the exceptional versatility, reliability and unmatched scalability of the exalead one:search platform itself," Bourdoncle said. "Exalead firmly believes its ability to sort through and arrange content on the Web by topic, format or form or any other vertical arrangement is second to none. Our indexing technology is extremely well-suited for Web search, enterprise search or the creation of a business or consumer application that has search at its core."
For more information about Exalead and its enterprise search products, please visit http:///corporate.exalead.com or visit Exalead's Web search engine at www.exalead.com.
About Exalead
Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of search software for business and the Web. Based on the first and only unified search technology platform for desktop, intranet or Web search, Exalead's products provide users with a single access point to information, regardless of format or location. Its patented Search by Serendipity(R) navigation system adapts to user habits for a less frustrating and uniquely satisfying search experience.
The exalead one:search(TM) line of software products - designed for desktop, workgroup, enterprise, datacenter and Web environments - are in use by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing and telecommunications companies around the world. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris, New York, San Francisco, Milan and Munich. For more information, please visit http://corporate.exalead.com/.
Exalead, Search by Serendipity, exalead one:search and exalead one:enterprise are registered trademarks or trademarks of Exalead SA. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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