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NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the world’s largest online archive of historic newspapers, is announcing a partnership with Exalead to enable searching across the 100 million newspapers in their collection. Exalead is the leading provider of search-based application platforms, and NewspaperARCHIVE.com is confident that customers will have a faster, smoother search experience.
“As our archives grow, we need to scale our search capabilities to ensure that our customers gain the best possible experience.”
The NewspaperARCHIVE.com index is indeed a large one. The database contains of just over 100 million newspaper pages, each averaging about 6,000 words – a total of roughly 600 billion terms or 2 TBs of text. Exalead has experience with similar enterprise-level datasets, and adds value with features such as parametrics, designed to enable users to discover the information they are searching for with ease.
“NewspaperARCHIVE is a historical treasure trove for business, education and consumers,” said Paul Doscher, Exalead Americas CEO. “We’re very pleased to have assisted NewspaperArchive with their very unique and valuable service.”
Any interested parties may visit http://www.newspaperarchive.com or contact Senior Content Specialist Stephen Carr at (scarr at newspaperarchive.com)
NewspaperARCHIVE.com is dedicated to providing researchers and casual users alike an intelligent interface to discover the genealogy, history, and personal stories that they are looking for. Explore, Discover and Share with NewspaperARCHIVE.com
About Exalead
Founded in 2000 by Search engine pioneers, Exalead® is the leadingl search-based application platform provider to business and government. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PricewaterhouseCooper, ViaMichelin, GEFCO, American Greetings and Sanofi Pasteur, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with its platform, Exalead CloudView™, which uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-used data in the new hybrid enterprise and Web information cloud. Cloudview collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access applications.
Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan and Darmstadt. Readers who wish to gain more information about Exalead can contact (415) 230 3800.
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