Shiny New Exalead

Exalead, the french search engine that some people know about, but I wonder how many people use, has a new version. I like their presentation of search results, and the beta has some easy search refining tools. I thought it would be cool to use it for searching web resumes, and it is, but not in the way I want it to be. Exalead has that little preview window next to each result from a search. Great, but unless you have microscopic vision, its relatively useless. To see the image you still have to click into it. What would be cool is if they could have the image expand to a readable size when you rolled over it. That would be super useful from a recruiters perspective (i.e. when your results are resumes or CVs) and would make that neat little feature more than just a useless neat little feature. But that's just the lazy sourcer in me talking. All that clickin' around gets tiresome.

One thing I do like is the ability to scroll through results by clicking on the arrow to either the next result or the previous result. If you have your web resume search refined just right, this is useful.

Thanks to Resourceshelf for the tip. Go here to take a ride yourself. Login 'beta'.


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