Exalead is, per their website, ”a global provider of software designed to simplify all aspects of information search and retrieval for organizations of all sizes.” Exaled has been around since 2000, and provides recruiters and sourcers some nice features for searching resumes out on the Internet. Exalead offers the ability to search text, images and video specifically.

For an example, I continued with my “technical recruiting” theme from my earlier postings, and did a search for resumes with the key word “Java” in them and focused in on resumes from California. My search string was: intitle:resume java california. Exalead pulled up 5,248 search results, most of them resumes. The neat part of Exalead is the screen shot preview to the left of each search result, which let’s you peer into the site very quickly and find out if it really is a resume or worth a click through. See the example below: