Convera Adds BrightPlanet to its Open Excalibur(TM) Partner Program; Deep Web exploitation leader joins to leverage market knowledge and enhance usage of Excalibur(TM).

VIENNA, Va. -- Convera Corporation (NASDAQ:CNVR), a leading provider of search technologies to commercial enterprises and government agencies, today announced the newest addition to its Open Excalibur(TM) Partner program. BrightPlanet Corporation, a leader in deep Web research, monitoring and management, joins a select group of organizations who through an alliance with Convera will enhance their ability to deliver high value search solutions to their respective customers.

"What connects each member of the Open Excalibur(TM) Partner program is their overall desire to deliver high value, integrated products and services to solve customers advanced Internet search challenges," said Patrick C. Condo, Convera's Chief Executive Officer.

Coupled with the Web indexing capabilities of Excalibur(TM), BrightPlanet's Harvest Engine(TM) will provide unparalleled access to the internet and internal content, allowing the harvest of Deep Web, Surface Web, and internal file systems, without restrictions due to language or file type. This capability will provide Excalibur(TM) users with a variety of targeted high quality content relevant to their needs.

"Comprehensiveness, interoperability and extensible functionality are keys to success in realizing the value of unstructured data. We are pleased to participate in this effort as a means of showcasing these principles," said Duncan Witte, President and Chief Operating Officer of BrightPlanet. "This installation will allow us to experiment and demonstrate tight integration with a number of partners."

The Open Excalibur(TM) search platform provides easy integration of third party products and services by adhering to established open interface standards such as REST and XML. In addition, Convera is working with partners on an open indexing API to allow third party technologies such as language processing, entity extractors, and geo-tagging to fit directly into the indexing pipeline. The Open Excalibur(TM) platform will allow customers to incorporate other best-of-breed technologies to customize the Excalibur search and analysis capabilities to their specific needs.

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of search technologies to commercial enterprises and government agencies. Through its two offerings, Excalibur(TM), a newly developed Web search solution and RetrievalWare(R), its enterprise search product, Convera offers unique search technology capable of providing an integrated results page derived from both intranet and Internet content. Convera's technologies manage vast stores of structured and unstructured information that exist within internal repositories and on the Web by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search capabilities across text, video, image and audio information, in multiple languages. More than 900 customers in 40 countries rely on Convera search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications. For more information, contact Convera at 800-755-7005, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com.

About BrightPlanet Corporation

BrightPlanet Corporation is the leader in deep document content and the development of innovative ways to efficiently search, monitor and manage all Internet and internal content. BrightPlanet offers unique, patented technologies for discovery, harvest, management, aggregation, qualification and classification of document information. BrightPlanet's customers include U.S. Government and international agencies, as well as leading commercial enterprises. Offices are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; New York, New York; Washington, D.C. , and Charlotte, NC.. For more information about BrightPlanet and the Deep Query Manager(TM), visit the BrightPlanet website at www.brightplanet.com, or call [phone].

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