« Poland's Apple To IPO in Warsaw | Main | Ubisoft Acquires German Games Publisher Sunflowers »
April 11, 2007
Exalead's CEO On Wikipedia Search and Quaero Myths
We read with interest a Q&A this week with French search company Exalead's CEO where he dispels some of the myths about the much hyped Quaero project, which he said was falsely dubbed by politicians as a Google "killer".
Despite what some politicians have said, Quaero is not a collaborative effort aimed at creating a "Google killer." It is a research project on multimedia search technologies, period. In particular, image tagging, speech-to-text and machine translations, etc. It may very well produce technology or technology advancements that improve search, but Exalead is pursuing its own course of product development and go-to-market activity. What comes of Quaero will not determine what Exalead becomes or offers.
There is something Exalead has in common with Google, Yandex and Co
While its HQ is not as stylish as Russia's Yandex
Its team does have a sense of irony : April Fool's Day Logo
And in Neteco we read about how his firm has done some Wikipedia wizardry for better search access, apparently with the blessing of the popular online encyclopedia's IT team.
We've noticed an uptick in search driven traffic from Exalead to the a:c euro - it's nowhere near what we get from Google, but enough to make us notice. The French search engine is gaining some momentum it seems in its pitch to build a more consumer oriented search business on top of its enterprise search activities.
Read - Exalead Robot Assault Wikipedia (neteco)
Read - Q&A With François Bourdoncle, CEO Of Exalead (search engine land)
Posted on April 11, 2007 05:14 AM | Posted to entrepreneurship | Permalink
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/4119
