KnightRidder.com Deploys Autonomy's Technology to Offer Advanced Categorization for RealCities.com Network
San Francisco, Calif. (Feb. 17, 2000) - Autonomy, Inc. today announced that KnightRidder.com, a leader in interactive information, is using Autonomy's technology to aggregate, categorize and summarize content for its RealCities.com national Web network.
Real Cities is a network of regional destination hubs in 31 U.S. markets specializing in local information and services. By deploying Autonomy's technology, KnightRidder.com will be able to automate otherwise manual operations like the categorization, linking and delivery of news content for it's Real Cities network.
Autonomy's technology automatically organizes information from thousands of internal and external sources into easy-to-navigate directories. It also builds employee profiles and creates personalized reports and alerts. Because Autonomy's technology can analyze a piece of text and identify the main ideas, it eliminates many of the time-consuming and costly functions involved with deploying a site, including categorizing, tagging, hypertext linking and personalizing information.
"We chose Autonomy's solution because it derives meaning from text and automates operations like the categorization and delivery of information," said David DeMilo, vice president of technology development, KnightRidder.com. "Autonomy's technology will help reduce Real Cities operating costs while increasing site loyalty through the delivery of relevant content"
According to Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, Autonomy's technology was designed to allow organizations to meet their time to market goals while deploying commercial web sites. "By using Autonomy's technology to automate otherwise labor intensive tasks, KnightRidder.com will be able to focus on their core business versus manually tagging and linking information."
About KnightRidder.com:
KnightRidder.com, a leader in interactive information, manages and operates its emerging national network of regional hubs, RealCities.com, located in 31 U.S. markets. KnightRidder.com produces a variety of online services covering news, classified ads, entertainment, shopping, search, community publishing, Internet access, and archives in more than 50 Web sites. KnightRidder.com is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley.
About Autonomy, Inc.
Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalized systems for knowledge management, enterprise portals, new media publishing and electronic commerce. Because of its ability to analyze any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of otherwise labor intensive tasks. These range from categorizing 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 (EASDAQ:AUTN) was founded in 1996 and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. in the United States as well as offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cambridge, England, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Oslo and Sydney.
Among its 200-plus 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, Unilever, and the United States Department of Defense. 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 OpenMarket, Aeneid, CoreChange, Delano, FutureTense, Hyperwave, Insight, Intraspect, KnowledgeTrack, Global Recall, Nexor, Sagemaker, Sybase and Verge.
On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ stock exchange.
For further information, please contact Autonomy at (415) 243-9955 or visit the company's website at http://www.autonomy.com. Press and analysts may contact Marivi Lerdo, Kris Marubio or Tarana Harris at Edelman Public Relations, ph: (415) 433-5381.
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