Status : On study

Exalead needs to adapt its site so that with one click on a button on the main Search Page, the words typed into the Search Box are immediately placed in quotes.

The idea is to give the user the possibility to predefine sets of sites to be excluded. The problem is that there are somtimes sites I especially don't want to find (like amazon, ebay and "price finder"-sites). So maybe a user should be able to define such sets and/or there could be predefined sets (like: no commercial/bussines/... sites).

People get sick and tired of having to sign up for multiple accounts everywhere, and OpenID provides a real alternative to it.
Seeing as you're trying to market yourselves as being easy-to-use, convenient, etc, I think letting people sign into Exalead with OpenID would help enhance that image. And, you'd attract more usage from members of the OpenID community.

So basically, could you let people sign in with OpenID, instead of having to get an account with you?

www.openid.net

Very good idea, if there are plenty of results. For each refinement should be mentioned the number of results (in some cases it is already).

Please, remove from exalead's homepage the annoying jingle in the title "Internet search engine, image search engine, video search engine ..."

It would be nice to have a search specialized on weblogs, personal sites, and forums. (like myspace.com, skyblog, ...)

Create a tutorial with images of the new search interface, and text bubbles, showing what is better / new compared to other search engines.
Display it the first time a user goes to Exalead website so that he does not miss any useful option.