Convera's Search Technology Powers Encyclopaedia Britannica's New Multimedia Britannica Online School Edition.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)

April 9, 2002

Convera's RetrievalWare(R) Provides Teachers and Students with Fast,

Accurate Access to Educational Text, Images and Video Clips 

Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR) today announced that Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., one of the leading publishers of learning and knowledge products, is using Convera's RetrievalWare(R) multimedia search, retrieval and categorization technology to power the site-search capabilities for the new Britannica Online(R) School Edition, one of the world's most comprehensive K-12 online reference and learning resources.

Teachers and students now can use Britannica Online(R) School Edition's search function to quickly locate relevant information regardless of whether the information is contained in text, images, video clips, animation or audio files.

RetrievalWare enables students to simultaneously search against a collection of more than 100,000 articles, over 24,000 biographies, approximately 23,000 illustrations, over 1,300 maps, more than 270 animations, over 2,600 videos, over 170 sounds and more than 950 tables and charts.

Students also have the option of restricting their search to one or more of the following age-appropriate encyclopedias: Encyclopaedia Britannica for advanced students, Britannica Student for middle and high school students, and Britannica Elementary for elementary school students. Or, they can search against the entire collection with results automatically segmented into age-specific categories.

Click on the following link to view a "search results" display depicting a student doing research on France. The student has retrieved relevant text articles, video clips, images, Internet Web sites and biographies. Reference material is categorized into three age-appropriate encyclopedias: http://corporate.britannica.com/library/online/bolse_search.gif

About Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. creates and markets products of the highest quality for reference, education and learning. Its most famous product, the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the oldest continuously published reference work in the English language.

Since the 1980s, however, Britannica has been a leader in electronic publishing and now publishes encyclopedias and other works in many forms on the Internet, CD-ROM, and DVD. The company makes its headquarters in Chicago and maintains offices in London, New Delhi, Paris, Seoul, Sydney, Taipei, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. More information is available at www.britannica.com and 800/323-1229.

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of software products that access, organize and utilize enterprise data, whether text, video, audio or image files.

Convera's advanced technologies and products enable organizations to optimize the value of all their content, establishing an information infrastructure that effortlessly scales to provide large numbers of users with fast, accurate, web-enabled access to all relevant information for a broad range of business critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, customer relationship management and many more.

For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com.

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