[feedback20] Last feedback entries

Still cannot log in

truc bidule — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:22:03 +0100

I hate to say this, but the problem in http://feedback.exalead.com/feedbacks/326387-cannot-log-i... still hasn't been fixed for me...

Also, I encountered an HTTP error 500 when trying to add a comment to the bug I mentioned.

no RSS feed for ongoing search results

Glenn Gutmacher — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:38:05 +0100

You should allow people to get ongoing results from a search query as an RSS feed the way that Bing, Yahoo, IceRocket, etc. allow (or FeedMySearch.com for Google results). This is something that recruiters and investigative researchers find very useful.

Zoom for Bookmark Bar

Josh Stewart — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:12:25 +0200

The new zoom tool on the bookmark bar for the exalead search main page is wonderful! I appreciate your innovation in redefining the homepage.

Regexp search doesn't work

truc bidule — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:22:57 +0200

Here is an example that Sebastien Richard gave in another bug report:
http://www.exalead.com/search/web/results/?q=%2Fjenn.%2A%2F
This search gives 0 results (as a comparison "jenn" returns 2 million hits and "jennifer" returns 29 millions)

Note that fixing regexp search is all the more important since prefix search doesn't work either.

Exalead one desktop locking files

Norbert Hoeller — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:53:59 +0200

Intermittently, I have run into problems were I am unable to modify or delete files ('Access is denied'). Sometimes, rebooting solves the problem, but the problem seems to move to different files. In other cases, a reboot does nothing.

Using ProcessExplorer, I found that exalead had locked these files. Closing exalead allowed me to modify/delete the files. I am running Exalead one desktop Free 4.6.0.504.

Preferences don't save

Richard kimber — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:06:15 +0200

I need to set my childrens preferences to Enabled. I can do this and save the preferences, but when I reopen exalead it goes back to Moderate. WHY !! very very enoying, please put a fix in place.
Thanks, I love exalead but do need some basic serarch protection for my children.

Thanks

Richard

Long .doc files partially indexed

pana test — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:56:21 +0200

Exalead indexes only the first 4 or 5 pages of the .doc documents. If I search for a phrase within the first 4 or 5 pages, it works. If I search in an higher page, no result.

I made some more test: I think that the files are indexed, but the search engine manage only single words and not phrases. Always with the limit explained here above (ok for the first 4 or 5 pages, but not for the other pages).

Cannot log into Feedback.exalead.com

truc bidule — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:08:38 +0200

It's impossible to log into my account using the login link from feedback.exalead.com (to be more precise, logging in from here does log me onto http://www.exalead.com, but I'm still logged out from feedback.exalead.com)

I finally managed to log in by logging into http://www.exalead.com and following the link
http://feedback.exalead.com/sso?token=f54...longhexstring...

However, I think most users wishing to drop feedback wouldn't find this workaround (and if they can't find it they can't even drop feedback to say they couldn't find it!)

My browser is Firefox 3.5.2.

How to configure Exalead desktop professiopnal 4.60.0.515 to work w. lotus notes

Hendrik Timmermamn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:37:12 +0200

Hello,

How to configure Exalead desktop professiopnal 4.60.0.515 to work with lotus notes?

in preferences I have

----------------
Lotus notes installation path: ? C: Programs \ lotus \ notes ?

Path to note.ini file : Ok search for it: <user> \ local \ app data \ lotus \ notes \ data \

lotus notes workspace location: a empty dropdown

local database directories (ex c:\temp): ? <user> \ local \ app data \ lotus \ notes \ data \

lotus notes password: no password has been saved

-----------------

How to do it right? How to enter the password?

every hint welcome

Timmermann

Prefix-search bug?

v982 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:22:56 +0200

Prefix-search does not seem to work:

Note: "+" = 'ok' result-count (base ref), "-" = bad result-count

Case 1: (oven ready turkey product)

(No! Mere coincidence!!... hopefully! Exalead "prefix" example is Jenn*, like Jenny Turkey, really Jennie-o... which was not correctly found here either, however.)

- Web results 1-1 of 1 for Jenn* "Oven Ready Turkey" P...
- Web results 1-2 of 2 for Jenny "Oven Ready Turkey" Pro*
+ Web results 1-8 of 103 for Jenny "Oven Ready Turkey" P...

Case 2:
- Web results 1-10 of 1,983,058 for jenn*, Page 1
+ Web results 1-10 of 12,978,486 for jenny OR jenna , Page 1

Case 3:
- No document matched your search "jenn* -jenn"
+ Web results 1-10 of 9,184,317 for jenny -jenn, Page 1

Case 4:
- No document matched your search "jenn* AND -jenn"
- results 1-10 of 1,971,772 for jenn* AND -"jenn", Page 1
..."jenn.nu about"..." About Me Jenn"..."Posted by Jenn"
+ Web results 1-10 of 1,994,985 for jenn, Page 1

Case 5:
- No document matched your search "bird* -bird"
+ results 1-10 of 326,110 for birdhouse -bird, Page 1

Oui fix pre-fix?

Turning Off Suggestions

Pete Hyder — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:20:04 +0200

I tried exalead because I wanted a search engine WITHOUT a drop down of suggestions as I type

I found I could no longer use google because of this being forced on people when searching

Google do though give the option in the settings to disable this intrusion but I fail to see such a setting in Exalead

Bookmarks display

Stéphane Morand — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:03:28 +0200

With the new version, it is no longer possible to display more than 4 bookmarks (icons) per line on my personal Exalead homepage. It was very convenient with the previous version to see all bookmarks at once on the screen rather than having to scroll down. Would be nice if you could add back this preference "display 4/6/8/10 bookmarks per line". Thanks

GIVE US THE OLD WAY BACK!

Shar Johnson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:12:26 +0200

I gave Exalead's Welcome page two days and I hate it more and more. Now, my so called "icons" that have a picture of the site I have put on my Welcome Page are so large I can barely see any of them without having to take the time to search for them. WHY did you do that? It's ugly AND why don't the "icons" show the picture of the opening web page as quickly as it used to? I sit and I sit waiting and most of the time, I am lucky to have eight "icons" showing the webpage. Otherwise, everything else is greyed out. Didn't you bother testing this out on a group of un-biased people? I would have been nixxing it from day one if I would have been asked to be on that board. Now I have to go look for another browser and go back to the old way of keeping my favorite sites accessible. You ruined such a good thing. IF you wanted to get creative, why didn't you make those "icons" so we could make them whatever size we wanted them to be for our use? Now that would have been a great update. Instead you ruined a great setup. Why, did anyone complain about the old setup?
This makes me sick, you make ten steps backwards with your update. Most companies try to move forward, congrats, you managed to make a huge amount of us unhappy.
What is truly hysterical is that I can't find a place to hit Send... so are you refusing to see our complaints cuz there are so many?
Shar

A klick on the bookmark....

Hinck — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:08:23 +0200

Dear my EXALEAD team,

you brought up a new designed page, I like it ... but one comment and complain I have.

When I klick on one of my bookmarks, this link will open in the same tab. So the EXALEAD page is been gone. Before I could configured the bookmark that way, that the bookmark link would be open in a new tab. That is the way I like it, to keep the EXALEAD page on the top! :)

Best regards, Stefan

exalead startpage

Hagen Mattig — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:37:05 +0200

exalead startpage = bad interface

I hate it

JE Innes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:40:48 +0200

I use the Exalead start page to keep my most frequently used links. Although I've check the appropriate boxes, now when I click on a link, I go to a new PAGE not a new TAB. I lose the Exalead start page every time I click on a link. Before I kept the Exalead start page open all the time and toggled back and forth, now your engine useless to me.

In the FireFox browser (my browser of choice), all of my links are horizontal - which is great except every time I click on one I navigate away from the Exalead page. In IE, they are vertical (more useless) and opening in a new window (not tab) as well.

Looks of Site.

Donald Dutkowski — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:29:27 +0200

question marks appear instead of IMAGES. The commection is indeed made so the site is working but no images on mosts sites.

The Exalead search engine should be more customizable

Herrmann Doll — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:58:54 +0200

Dear Exalead team,

I wish to say that your search engine is the best! I have recently dropped Google as my homepage browser and added EXALEAD!

However, I wish to offer the following suggestions in order to make the Exalead search engine much more efficient, fun and more unique:

1) The option to change the homepage colour and text style (various colour and style options)

2) The option to customize the background image of Exalead (ex: uploading background images in order to further customize your own Exalead homepage)

3) The option to create an Exalead e-mail account

With these 3 potential improvements to the Exalead search engine, there will be a REVOLUTION IN THE INTERNET INDUSTRY!!!!

So please Exalead team, Make these improvements in order to increase Exalead's charisma and style!

Thank You for reading my suggestions Exalead team!

Cannot connect to Exalead Desktop offline

Jean Garez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:43:15 +0200

I do not understand why I cannot connect to Exalead Desktop unless I am connected to the web. There does not seem to be offline support and it does not make sense to me. This error should only appear if I am trying to search through Exalead Desktop to the web. This started with 4.5 and it remains a problem with 4.6. I am running XP with 1 GB of RAM.

Also, i do not understand why, since Exalead is supposed to be a federating search engine why I cannot search the web and my desktop at the same time (assuming I am connected to the web). This was possible in previous versions of Desktop?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jean Garez
Singapore

Exalead Games

Julien Gouesse — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:13:45 +0200

Hi!

I would like Exalead to provide an equivalent of Yahoo! Games but with cross-platform near-commercial quality games. For example, it would be fine to reuse some existing Java open source games already available on the FGF players' portal: http://tuer.tuxfamily.org/fgf/players_portal/
There are a clone of Worms, some other interesting FPS (Tesseract, TUER), a racing game (Ferrari3D), etc...
Using these games would not cost anything and would enjoy some people looking for casual games.

It would allow to play with 2D and 3D games of different kinds, FPS, RTS, RPG, both in applets and in standalone applications.

Best regards.

Icon Sequence

Donald Dutkowski — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:17:30 +0200

I would LOVE to be able to arrange my SHORTCUTS in a special order...I know it can be done now..but with toomuch hastle.

So Far So Good

m levine — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:58:24 +0200

Im using Firefox, but now after I get in FF, I go to Exalead and use it LIKE a browser. It's neat and quick. The shortcut buttons are easy to use, convenient and quick. The key to success is how good the search engine is. I haven't used it much but shall give it a test fly for a month or so before I judge . So far so good. I wish you great success

Exalead Messenger

Ivan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:54:12 +0100

This will take a while,but will be good to have it as a thought, for future needs. Exalead will innovate their followers to bring them united as one, to bring them a bit closer, and to be connected all day on upcoming events, and to be connected by having a Exalead Messenger. This will allow all users to embrace their connection with the site. Note (this is only for people that are register in the site).

Some blogspots need to be indexed

Irshad Ahamed — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:54:15 +0100

I was searching for an actress called udayanthi. No images were given back. But google returned a lot. Most of them are from blogspot. following are some examples.

http:\\srilankan-actress.blogspot.com
http:\\srimodel.blogspot.com

Please do a more thorough indexing on blogspots

Werbung auf Exalead

Victor Ward — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:03:17 +0100

Hallo!

Mir gefällt Exalead sehr gut! Nur eine Sache stört erheblich:
Drei dicke, fette Anzeigen zu Beginn jeder Ergebnisanzeige.

Die drei immer als erstes - also vorneweg.... das ist ätzend. Ich kann lsie nicht mal ausblenden oder verschieben wenn ich angemeldet bin. Tatsächlich ein Grund weiterhin Google zu benutzen...