Introducing Exa Places: Search 211M Places with Structured Data
Blog post from Exa
Exa has introduced Exa Places, adding 211 million global locations to its AI search index and making structured business data available through its existing APIs at no additional cost. The service supports searches for restaurants, hotels, retailers, healthcare providers, attractions, and other local entities, returning details such as addresses, coordinates, operating hours, status, phone numbers, websites, ratings, and categories. Intended uses include personal assistants that recommend currently open venues, sales and go-to-market teams building local business lists, and market researchers estimating local demand or service availability. Exa reports that, in a 400-query comparison measuring accurate business metadata, Exa Fast achieved an F1 score of 0.800, compared with 0.529 for Perplexity Search and 0.333 for Parallel Advanced.
| Trend | Post Mentions | Total Month Mentions | Posts | Companies | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Agents | 2 | 6,890 | 1,628 | 266 | +23% |
| Exa Agent Ultra | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | -17% |
| Exa Connect | 1 | 35 | 34 | 1 | +338% |
| Exa Snapshot | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -83% |
| LLM | 1 | 6,496 | 1,223 | 229 | +8% |
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