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Verity Provides Reliable, Scalable, and Advanced Portal Infrastructure Software for PeopleLink's eCommunities

PeopleLink Chooses Verity K2 to Power Message Boards Application For Fortune 1000 Customers

SUNNYVALE, CA. - 2001-08-07 - Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of infrastructure software powering enterprise and e-commerce portals as well as e-business applications, today announced that PeopleLink Inc., a leading Business Solutions Provider (BSP) of eCommunity infrastructure solutions, has chosen Verity K2 to deliver a fast and accurate portal infrastructure for PeopleLink's message boards application. Among those companies using PeopleLink's new message boards that incorporate the Verity technology are COMEDY CENTRAL and The Sporting News.

"Since Verity offers the best solution to meet our requirements for reliability, scalability, and integration support, they are the obvious choice for our message boards application," said Steve Glenn, founder and CEO of PeopleLink. "The performance is impressive, especially in regards to speed. Users do not want to wait three seconds for search results. We have witnessed an incredible improvement in the average search time to almost instantaneous."

"We want to attract visitors to our site, comedycentral.com, with humor and excitement. Message boards and other eCommunity offerings keep them on our site," said Ken Locker, SVP Enterprise and New Media, COMEDY CENTRAL. "It is essential for us to equip our eCommunity with fast and reliable technology to establish and maintain relationships with our online audience."

With the implementation of Verity K2, PeopleLink provides advanced search, navigation, and viewing capabilities for its message boards application. Verity K2 successfully handles metadata searching on various fields, including date, subject, author, and message text, enabling relevant and accurate search results.

"Successful content providers and e-tailers have learned to surround their commercial offerings with substance and interactive features," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, president of Verity. "We're glad to help PeopleLink provide the full-text search capability for their message board offerings."

About Verity

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Verity is a leading provider of business portal infrastructure software. Verity software gives businesses a multitude of ways to improve access to vital information and perform a range of e-business operations, while enhancing the end-user experience. Verity-powered business portals, which include corporate portals used for sharing information within an enterprise; e-commerce portals for online selling; and market exchange portals for B2B activities, all provide personalized information to employees, partners, customers and suppliers.

Verity products are used by 80 percent of the Fortune 50 and by more than 1,500 corporations in various markets. Customers include Adobe Systems, American Greetings, AT&T, CDNOW, Chapters, Cisco, CNET, Compaq, Dow Jones, Edgar Online, Ernst & Young, Fairmarket, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Home Depot, Lotus, NewsEdge Corporation, SAP, Siemens, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex. In 2001, Delphi Group named Verity as the market leader in the portal infrastructure software.

About PeopleLink

PeopleLink, Inc. is the leading Business Solutions Provider (BSP) of eCommunity infrastructure solutions designed to enhance marketing, sales, and support initiatives. PeopleLink provides a comprehensive set of eCommunity applications and professional services that enable businesses to maximize revenue opportunities, build their brand, solidify customer and partner relationships, and provide superior customer service. PeopleLink's clients include Oracle, GE Medical Systems, MTVi (which includes MTV.com and VH1.com), Universal Studios, CBS, The Sporting News, NICK.com, Comedy Central, GOLFonline.com, Vacation.com's AgentNet and more. The Santa Monica-based company is funded by AT&T Ventures; The BRM Group; GE Equity; Goldman Sachs Group; HarbourVest Partners, LLC; Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated; and idealab!.

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance of its Verity K2 product. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties including the risk that integration of the Verity K2 into the Peoplelink-hosted Web sites will be delayed or not occur, or not perform as anticipated as a result of unforeseen technical difficulties. Risks relating to Verity and its products are set forth in its Form 10-K and other reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.

Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc.

Channing Barringer

Edelman PR Worldwide.

212-642-7716

channing.barringer@edelman.com

PeopleLink Editorial Contact:

Suzanne Dickson

PeopleLink, Inc.

310-581-4299 Ext. 259

Suzanne.Dickson@peoplelink.com

Winifred Shum

Verity, Inc.

(408) 542-2363

wshum@verity,com

http://www.verity.com

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