French innovators have come and gone. Datops S.A. was an early leader in visualization of search results. Pertimm offered natural language search in an interface that I found confusing. Datops and its Pericles analytics system became a unit of Reed Elsevier in late 2006 and have virtually disappeared as a stand-alone brand. When I could navigate the interface, the system returned extremely useful results. I was a fan of the metasearch technology and service EZ2Find. I thought the system could grow into a high-traffic service. But, alas, the brother and sister team of Luigi and Maiete Castagna broke the Paris-centric grip on innovation in metasearch. Even today, I could make good use of its search function for key words and phrases. EZ2Find offered convenient access to a range of non-French-language resources.
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