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Exalead
The French search engine Exalead, which introduced a new look in 2006 , has
features that make it worth special mention. Exalead offers both proximity searches
and truncation, two options no other major search engine offers anymore. In
addition, Exalead presents thumbnail images of websites in the results list (if you
want them) and related search terms, directory categories, website locations, and
filetypes. Exalead now claims to index more than eight billion pages. Although this is
far smaller than some major search engines, it is a respectable number and one that
is sure to increase.
While the new version of Exalead did away with one of its best features-the safe
page preview-Exalead offers a number of other unusual or unique features
designed to create a very powerful search tool:
~ Exalead refreshes its index continuously, not on a schedule (this is a good
thing) .
~ default operator is AND; users may use OR.
~ Exalead does not publish a search term limit; it handled some very long
searches perfectly while it had trouble with others.
~ truncation, proximity, phonetic, and true wildcard searches.
~ as of now, Exalead has no sponsored links.
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Notice the images below the query box. Exalead lets users put "shortcuts" here by
entering a title and uri for your favorite webs ites.
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