Wednesday, 18 October 2006

Exalead Upgrades Search Software

Exalead has unveiled new versions of its unified search software products for desktop and workgroup environments. The new releases, exalead one:desktop 4.5 and exalead one:workgroup 4.5 aim to offer new performance enhancements as well as support for new file formats and e-mail clients.

Of note, the new exalead one:desktop 4.5 Professional Edition now has no indexing limitations, a first for desktop search. This capability is also part of exalead one:workgroup 4.5. This means users now have the ability to index an unlimited number of documents, regardless of format or location, at no additional cost. Exalead will continue to offer a free downloadable version of its exalead one:desktop software product that can index up to 100,000 documents, as per the statement issued by the company.

The new functionality of release 4.5 builds on Exalead's user interface and patented navigation technology, which allows users to search by serendipity. For every search query, Exalead returns a list of categories and related terms to allow users to broaden or refine a search by location, author or format, or to exclude irrelevant terms and topics, the company said.

According to Exalead, new features include:

• Infinite scalability
• Edition can index an unlimited number of documents
• Fast query response
• Optimise search performance on any PC
• Expanded e-mail client support
• Support for 300+ file formats
• Rich document preview
• Optimised for multi-core and multi-processor PCs