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Exalead Debuts Semantic Search Service
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San Diego, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 14, 2007 - Exalead has developed the first semantic search service that allows locating, oprganizing, sharing and enhancing content online. The new BAAGZ service represents the first live network of shared interests.
BAAGZ fosters a collaborative environment where users can connect with others on the Web who have similar interests - whether hobbies, travel, music or news - to share and enhance this content with new ideas, in effect contributing to the expansion of the Semantic Web. At the foundation of BAAGZ is a web search engine based on Exalead's patented Semantic Web search technology, Search By Serendipity.
However, BAAGZ is much more than a search engine. It is a new form of social network that represents the first live network of shared interests. These shared interests are characterized by the public content contained within individual folders, called baagz, that act as shortcuts to your favorite Web sites, articles, pictures, videos, RSS feeds and notes.
Francois Bourdoncle, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Exalead noted, ''BAAGZ represents more than a decade of R&D and aims to capture the very essence of what is referred to as Web 2.0. We've applied our expertise in search and user interfaces to the elements of sharing, personalization and social networking to allow people to use the web as a place to find information and people with similar interests or goals, or are experts in a given field or subject.''
With BAAGZ' integrated user interface, it is possible to store and organize the content of interest, in a format that can be easily retrieved, shared and searched, or baagerz, as choosen. Build Your Own "baagz" Once a registered user, it's easy to begin creating your own baagz. Simply type a topic or search query into the search box and instantly connect to content from various Web data sources, including Exalead's Web, Video, Image and Wikipedia vertical search applications. You can then populate your baag with relevant Web pages and content, or your own personal content.
All of the baagz are automatically saved to personal homepage so they can be quickly accessed to retrieve the information contained within and also continue to grow as new, relevant content becomes available. If you choose to make your baag public, its contents can be searched by other users, or by you, all from a single search box. Easily Stay in Touch with Your baagz and Others' baagz Leveraging Exalead's expertise in indexing the Semantic Web, BAAGZ uses its semantic description of every Web site stored in a baag to determine what a given baag is about - whether or not a given Web site is specifically tagged by baagerz.
The system then uses this knowledge about every baager to connect him or her to other baagerz with shared interests. The ability to immediately notify baagerz when something new and exciting appears on the network is the pulse of BAAGZ. In addition, BAAGZ allows its users to engage in real-time interaction with other users through innovative collaboration and communications tools. Through these tools and the central BAAGZ dashboard - the pulse of this live network - users can watch their own baagz evolve and grow through contributions from others on the BAAGZ network, as well as those they have subscribed to that are managed by other BAAGZ users. As a result, users have a visual, interactive real-time content feed on their BAAGZ homepage and have an exciting environment to learn about their favorite hobbies and interests from other experts and fans around the Web.
Chris Shipley, Executive Producer of the DEMO conferences noted, ''BAAGZ fundamentally alters our view of what search is and does. "BAAGZ combines the best of Web search and social networking to bring users a brand new way to interact with content and people.''
Exalead announced a special by-invitation-only beta session. Mr. Bourdoncle added, ''Our goal for the private beta period is to give people an exciting chance to discover all that BAAGZ is and can be for them as well as to begin to build the multi-facetted social network that will serve to benefit our next phase of users or, as we like to call them, baggerz.''
The exalead one:search 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, Frankfurt, Glasgow and Milan. Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of search software for business and the web. Based on the 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 navigation system adapts to user habits.
For more information about Exalead, please visit: www.exalead.com.
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