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AltaVista Software Delivers Enterprise Productivity Application

AltaVista Software, a division of AltaVista Company, a majority-owned operating company of CMGI Inc, announced the general availability of AltaVista Desktop Search. AltaVista Desktop Search is an advanced productivity application that drives user efficiency by providing fast, highly relevant search solutions for individual desktop and laptop computers in the enterprise-computing environment.

Available immediately, AltaVista Desktop Search enables maximum utilization of information stored on personal computers by offering a collection of user-driven controls. These deliver broad search and retrieval capabilities and deep email crawler functionality while supporting the navigation of important business file types.

Mark Cuhaci, vice president, AltaVista Software EMEA said; "Half of the world’s digital content resides on personal computers as unstructured data and remains hidden or inaccessible in the form of email or various file types and formats. The AltaVista Desktop Search solution addresses the very real business problem of workers wasting several hours each day seeking access to information that already exists."

AltaVista Desktop Search offers a variety of features engineered to navigate more than 225 different file types by filename and folder. A user’s search for documents and content is further extended through a broad search and retrieval capability that views a PC’s entire index to determine priority and extract relevant results. Moreover, AltaVista Desktop Search enables this data to be searched and presented back to the user in a single frame interface.

Acknowledging the mission-critical nature of email as a dominant form of business communication, AltaVista Desktop Search delivers enhanced email crawler functionality, empowering users to find important data and potential business opportunities buried within thousands of email messages and discussion threads. The email browser function of AltaVista Desktop Search delivers requested information sorted by content keywords or by attributes such as "cc", "to", "from", folder and date range.

AltaVista Desktop Search is a client-based Windows application designed to complement the Web browser. Users can search their local index at all times, regardless of which applications are in use, or whether the user is onsite, offsite, online or offline. Information can be gathered and indexed with or without an open browser window, allowing the contents of recently added files and email to be accessed during index updates.

Cuhaci concluded; "The launch of AltaVista Desktop Search is an important step in our progress towards providing enterprise users with a single frame that offers a 'universal view' of relevant corporate information across multiple platforms, applications and file formats."

AltaVista Desktop Search is available through www.solutions.altavista.com.

About AltaVista Software

AltaVista Software, a division of AltaVista Company, organizes and turns unstructured data into valuable information for businesses, improves online customer satisfaction and provides a universal view of information across one platform. AltaVista Software's award-winning technology powers more than 600 companies, including Amazon.com, Ariba, Reuters, Buy.com, DaimlerChrysler, Procter & Gamble and Siemens.

About AltaVista Company

AltaVista is a leading global provider of search services and software. The company's patented technology continues to set the pace, making AltaVista a leading search engine among Web users and premier provider of high-powered search software to Intranet, enterprise and e-commerce clients around the globe. AltaVista is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI Inc. For more information, see www.altavista.com.