What is Exalead?
[[File:Bourdoncle-300dpi.jpg|thumb|François Bourdoncle]] '''Exalead''' [eg'zæli:d] is a company in [[Paris]] and founded in 2000 by [[Francois Bourdoncle]]. Its name comes from the association between * the [[Prefix (linguistics)|prefix]] ''exa'' which means 10<sup>18</sup> (used as a generic term for size, to imply large coverage of pages) * and the verb lead (as the customer is led through the search options) Exalead tries to integrate research functions in one piece of software, combining [[Internet]], desktop and enterprise functionality. Exalead employs approximately 60 people in 3 countries ([[Paris]] in [[France]], [[Milano]] in [[Italy]] and [[New York City|New York]] and [[San Francisco]] in the [[United States of America]]). [[Category:Search engines]] [[Category:French websites]]