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, United States, that develops and markets products for people and organizations that need to find information quickly. It is an operating company of

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, and is backed by

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History

X1 was founded in 2003, as X1 Technologies, Inc., to sell products that allow business users to access the information that resides on one computer or across the corporate enterprise. The products feature a "find-as-you-type" interface that narrows the results list as each letter of the search term is typed or an entry is made in the

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field, without requiring the user to press the search button again. Result details are listed in the left pane of the interface, and a preview of the file or email is displayed in the right pane. X1 searches almost 500 file-types, including

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and

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such as

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and Symantec Enterprise Vault even if the user does not have the associated application installed on their PC. In late 2005, X1 entered the enterprise search market with its Enterprise Edition, which consisted of a network-based indexing server that delivers results to the Desktop Edition (now X1 Search) or via a browser client interface. In 2013, the full suite of X1 products was combined under X1. In 2015 PCMag awards Editor's Choice to X1 for "Best Desktop Search" solution and Gartner names X1 a "Cool Vendor in Endpoint Computing". X1 was listed as one of

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's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" for four years, and as one of

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's "Cool Vendors in the High Performance Workplace" in 2006. It also won a PC Magazine's Award for Technical Excellence in 2004, and was reviewed by EContent Magazine.EContent Magazine
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''. X1 has partnered with and powered search initiatives for IBM,

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and

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. In 2011, X1 Discovery, Inc. was formed to expand the X1 product line to include

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and

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products. In 2012, the full suite of X1 products was combined under X1. X1's products include: * Search * Distributed Discovery * Social Discovery

Patents

*7,370,035
Methods and systems for search indexing
*7,424,510
Methods and systems for Web-based incremental searches
*7,496,559
Apparatus and methods for locating data
*7,945,914
Methods and systems for performing operations in response to detecting a computer idle condition
*8,019,741
Apparatus and methods for locating data
*8,856,093
Methods and systems for search indexing

References

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External links

X1 Web site (x1.com)Search Software (X1 Search)

eDiscovery Software (X1 Distributed Discovery)

Social Media Investigations Software (X1 Social Discovery)

Compare all X1 products

Software companies of the United States Companies based in California