New Search Engine -- Exalead

I'm not sure why the top of the page says 1 billion pages and the bottom of the page says 302,533,532 Web documents, but I'll go with it. The search engine is called Exalead and it's available at http://beta.exalead.com/search .

A search for "fred" found a little over 1.4 million results, while Gigablast finds a bit over 3 million with the same search, so I'm more inclined to go with the 300 million page figure. I like the results page, lots of information but not too busy. The left side of the page has terms related to the search, related categories (linking to DMOZ listings), the research results sorted by geographic location, and the search results sorted by document type. The middle of the page has the listings themselves (title, snippet, URL, size, and sometimes index date) and the right side of the page has screen shots of the sites. If you look at the top of the screen you'll see three screen icons. One is for results without screen shots, one is the default view, and one is for screen shots only without verbiage.

Generally I do not like pull-down menu, advanced search screens, but this one is okay. Search options on the advanced search include file type, language, country, searching by date, and domain search. There's also an option to search using regular expressions as well as an option to search using automatic spelling, phonetic search, and approximate spelling.

I liked the relevance of the results in the searches I did, and I like the options and large amount of information on the results screen. Looking forward to the database expanding; worth a look.

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