Exalead Search Engine

You can add some shortcuts to this search engine, allowing you to personalise it. There are some useful advanced search options. You can use:

• Word stemming such as 'librar*', phonetic spelling, approximate spelling.
• Proximity searching, nested logic, reguar expressions.
• Search for pages modified before or after a specific date.
• Country / langauge searching.
• Filetype searching.

Display options are: text only; text with thumbnails; text with thumbnails and extra data.

You can also can narrow searches in a variety of ways - related terms, site types (blogs, forums and non-commercial sites), multimedia, geographical location (by country or region - e.g Euope or Africa). There's also a directory option.

You can use it to search images (with advanced search options for image size, facial content, orientation, filetype, colour/b&w/greyscale.

Phil Bradley in CILIP Update, December 2008