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TravelBreak.com Selects Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box™ To Personalise Information For On-Line Consumers

Cambridge, England (January 2000) - Autonomy, Inc., today announced that travelbreak.com, one of the world's most comprehensive travel web sites, is deploying Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box™ to categorise, link, personalise and deliver content from thousands of travel providers to its vast community of global travel consumers.

In the travel break marketplace, buyers and sellers deal directly with one another. Travel agents, wholesalers, airlines, hotels, cruise lines and travel providers now have an easy way to reach a greater population of travel consumers. By using Autonomy's Portal-in-a Box, travelbreak.com will be able to profile users' interests and proactively deliver information that meets their individual needs. Autonomy will also automatically categorise and link content from thousands of travel providers, making information more readily available for site visitors. This is a natural step towards travelbreak.com's goal of creating the most customer-centric travel marketplace in the world.

Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box™ automatically organizes information from thousands of internal and external sources into easy-to-navigate directories. It also builds user profiles and creates personalised reports and alerts. Because Autonomy's technology can analyse a piece of text and identify the main ideas, it eliminates many of the time-consuming and costly functions involved with building and maintaining an EIP, including categorising, tagging, hypertext linking and personalising information.

"Because Autonomy's Portal-In-A-Box™ automatically categorises information, whether from internal sources (such as Word documents) or external sources (such as the Internet), we can focus on providing value to our customers versus manually tagging information" said Tudor Boloni from travelbreak.com. "Autonomy's ability to identify the main ideas in text and deliver personalised information will enhance our ability to service our customers while increasing overall site loyalty".

According to Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, Autonomy's unique pattern-matching technology allows companies to better serve the ever-changing needs of on-line consumers. "Autonomy's ability to understand and deliver information based on its concepts allows companies to better meet the individual needs of each unique user. And by automating operations like categorisation and hypertext linking, we help customers reduce operating costs and focus on their core business".

About travelbreak.com

travelbreak.com is an online open-to-all travel and leisure marketplace. travelbreak's website is a meeting place where any seller of travel and leisure from anywhere in the world can sell to any buyer. travelbreak offers users a multitude of trading formats, auctions, fixed-price deals, and a reverse bidding component through which to transact. travelbreak also hosts a robust community area where travelers meet to chat, exchange ideas and information, and inquire about travel products and destinations.

Travelbreak's goal is to provide a one-stop travel portal for all leisure and corporate travelers. This model provides a truly open-to-all marketplace, a global exchange for travel-related services and products. travelbreak is determined to become the leading travel solutions site, using the latest technological achievements and innovative trading formats.

About Autonomy:

Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalised systems for knowledge management, enterprise portals, new media publishing and electronic commerce. Because of its ability to analyse any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of labour-intensive tasks. These range from categorising information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested.

Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco, New York, Atlanta and Boston, in the United States as well as in Cambridge (England), Paris, Oslo, Sydney, Frankfurt, Milan, Brussels and Amsterdam. Among its 150 customers are Alcatel, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, British Aerospace, Clorox, News Corp., Procter & Gamble, Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, SF Gate, Semi-tech, The Royal Mail, and Unilever. In addition, several software companies are licensing Autonomy's technology to add intelligence to their online publishing, knowledge management, email routing and document management applications, including SageMaker, FutureTense, Intraspect, Verge, Aeneid, Global Recall, Insight and Nexor.

On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ exchange (Easdaq: AUTN).

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