Exalead has dared to be different with its One:Desktop product, most noticeably with the interface. Document previews show near-perfect formatting and, by moving the filtering and refinement to the sidebar, Exalead has created room for the presentation to dynamically adapt to the content of current search results. The search technology is good as well, with options including Boolean, phonetic, forced stemming and even “approximation” that allows for letter substitutions in keywords. But high system resource usage, slow indexing and an index limit of 100,000 documents spoils this utility.

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