Exalead

Exalead is a software company that provides search platforms and search-based applications (SBA) [1][2]  for consumer and business users. The company is headquartered in Paris, France, and is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes [3] 

The company's CloudView product is an infrastructure-level search and information access platform used for both online and enterprise SBAs as well as enterprise search. SBAs use semantic technologies to aggregate and normalize unstructured, semi-structured and/or structured content across multiple repositories, and employ natural language technologies for accessing information. In the case of structured data, the SBA index replaces a traditional relational database structure as the primary vehicle for information access and reporting.

The CloudView product is also the platform for the public Web search engine, which was designed to apply semantic processing and faceted navigation to Web data volumes and usage. Exalead also operates an online R&D laboratory, Exalabs, which uses the Web as a medium for developing applied technologies for business. Exalabs projects include:

        * Miiget and Constellations, relationship mapping search engines (semantic mining and visual modes of presenting search results)

        * Wikifier, a module that incorporates Wikipedia information into web page content (data contextualization for unstructured content)

        * Voxalead, an engine for searching within the content of videos. It relies on the Vocapia Research speech-to-text technology.

        * Chromatik, a color-based image search engine (semantic multimedia search technologies)

        * Tweepz, a search engine for finding people who are using Twitter (social search)

        * Sourcier, a map-based service providing access to public data on subterranean water quality (map-centered information access)

Many of Exalabs projects are developed in conjunction with Exalead's partners in the Quaero [4][5] project.

Exalead was founded in 2000 by François Bourdoncle and Patrice Bertin (both of whom were involved in the development of the Alta Vista search engine), and began commercializing its products in 2005. Exalead employs approximately 140 people in 6 countries (in Paris, San Francisco, London, Glasgow, Milan, Rome, Madrid (past, office closed), Amsterdam, and Frankfurt  ).