CHADWYCK-HEALEY CHOOSES EXCALIBUR FOR KnowUK

Chadwyck-Healey, one of Europe's leading electronic publishers of humanities and reference resources, has selected Excalibur Technologies Corp, a leading provider of content management solutions for indexing and retrieving text, video and images on the Internet and intranets, to provide intelligent search solutions for KnowUK, www.knowuk.co.uk, one of its flagship online publications.

Chadwyck-Healey's choice of software is aimed at enabling easy-to-use, free public access to the resources of its Web-based reference service.

More than 700 public libraries in the United Kingdom subscribe to KnowUK, making the online service available at no cost to a population of over 10 million people.

Universities, schools, British and Irish cultural centers, corporate libraries and other organizations that need quick access to up-to-date information about the people, places and organizations of the UK have also subscribed to the service, which contains a database of more than 620,000 reference documents.

Excalibur's RetrievalWare will provide users with simple and easy access to wide-ranging information, and was chosen because of its powerful natural language processing and fast, accurate search capabilities.

John Taylor, vice president, Technology and Development for Chadwyck-Healey, commented, "The average person on the street will be able to sit at the library's desktop PC and ask natural language-based questions like, 'list all of the doctors in London that specialize in hereditary heart disease'. People looking for this kind of information want it quickly, they want to know that it is comprehensive and most importantly, that they don't have to compile specially constructed terminology to get an answer to their question."

Chadwyck-Healey also selected the Excalibur solution over its key competitors because of its scalability and multiple language support. In addition to providing intelligent search solutions for KnowUK, Excalibur is providing the search technology for the recently launched KnowEurope, a new information service that will be used by institutions and companies across Europe and beyond.

Chadwyck-Healey also anticipates its use by home users over the Internet. Both KnowEurope and KnowUK are available on a global basis.

"In addition to the high quality of search results, Excalibur's software is extremely flexible, working easily in conjunction with our existing software products and capable of handling intensive and extensive workloads," Taylor added.

About Excalibur RetrievalWare

Excalibur RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system which allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets.

Excalibur RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text files, HTML, documents, relational database tables, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems) and groupware repositories.

Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Excalibur RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets.

About Chadwyck-Healey

One of Chadwyck-Healey's key strengths is its ability to assemble large amounts of information from disparate sources and mould them into coherent publications and services which are easy to use and which provide real value to users. This ability is clearly demonstrated by very large and complex Web services such as Literature Online and the KnowUK solution for which Excalibur was selected.

In both cases, a variety of material types that are cross-searchable and easily navigable are intrinsic features. Chadwyck-Healey became part of Bell & Howell Information and Learning in 1999, adding its products to the existing range of information for researchers, academic staff and students in libraries, government, universities and schools, available in over 160 countries.

All of the products are now accessible electronically, either by CD-ROM or over the Web.

About Excalibur Technologies Corporation

Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation is a recognized leader in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video.

Excalibur works with Global 2000 corporations, software developers, application service providers and government agencies to power Intranet and Internet solutions, corporate portals and eCommerce sites.

Excalibur customers and partners include ABC News, AT&T, Akamai/INTERVU, BG Technology, Bloomberg, The Boeing Company, British Telecom, CareerBuilder.com, DataChannel, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, Harvard Medical School, ICI, iXL, Johnson Space Center, Loudeye, NCR, Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies Corp, QXL.com, Raytheon, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, UCLA, United Airlines, Watson Wyatt, WebPerfect Solutions and The World Bank.

On May 1, 2000, Excalibur and Intel's Interactive Media Services Division announced an agreement to merge and form a new company. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review and shareholder approval, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2000. Plans for the new company focus on achieving a leading role in Web-based interactive media services.

Contact Excalibur in North America at 800-788-7758 or 703-761-3700, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, or via e-mail at info@excalib.com.