New Exalead in Beta

Tons of options for this new version of the french search engine who now got a billion pages index. Here a list of the functionalities :

• Related Terms
• Related Categories
• Web Site Location
• Document Type
• Bookmark Site
• View Site in a Frame
• One or Three Columns Thumbnail Views
• Restrict Query to 11 langages
• Restrict Query to Country
• Restrict Query to four Types of Office Document or Rtf and Txt
• Site: Search
• Stemming Search
• Phonetic Search
• Approximate Spelling Search
• Sorting by Date or Relevance
• Prefix search
• Pattern Search

Exalead supports regular expression patterns. Patterns are introduced by a slash ('/') character. Within a regular expression, '.' is a special character that can represent any character, '*' stands for character repetition, '|' stands for 'or', and parenthesis are used to group characters. '?' is placed the end of a character group to make it optional.

Example:
/s.ren..pi.y/
Searches for documents with words that match the pattern S . R EN .. PI . Y -- this can be very useful to finish your crossword puzzles!
/mpg(1|2|3)?/
Searches for documents containing any of the following: mpg, mpg1, mpg2, or mpg3.