Verity CTO is Program Co-Chair of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference

CTO to Discuss Current Trends in the Integration of Search and Browsing

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - 2005-05-02 - Verity Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTY) today announced that its senior vice president and chief technology officer, Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, is the program co-chair for the 14th International World Wide Web Conference to be held on May 10th to 14th, 2005 in Chiba City, Japan.

In this role, Dr. Raghavan plays a central role in the event's technical program, which includes keynotes by Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Eric Brewer of UC Berkeley, Lorrie Cranor of Carnegie Mellon University, Rob Glaser of RealNetworks, as well as Yuji Inoue of NTT. In addition, on Wednesday, May 11th, from 2:40 p.m. to 4:10 p.m., Dr. Raghavan will offer his views on trends in integrating search and browsing as part of a panel discussion.

Who:

Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan

Verity's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

In addition to his role at Verity, Dr. Raghavan is a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he co-teaches the course sequence on Text and Web Retrieval. His research interests include semi-structured retrieval, text mining and randomized algorithms. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM and a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. Raghavan holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from IIT in Madras.

What:

WWW 2005 Conference, http://www2005.org, organized by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and Keio University

Panel Discussion - "Current Trends in the Integration of Search and Browsing"

Searching and browsing are the two basic information discovery paradigms, since the early days of the Web. After more than ten years down the road, three schools seem to have emerged. They are: (1) The search-centric school argues that guided navigation is superfluous since free-form search has become so good and the search UI so common, that users can satisfy all their needs via simple queries; (2) The taxonomy navigation school claims that users have difficulties expressing informational needs and (3) The meta-data centric school advocates the use of meta-data for narrowing large sets of results, and is successful in e-commerce where it is known as "multi-faceted search".

Where:

Makuhari Messe (Nippon Convention Center)

Nakase 2-1, Mihama-ku,

Chiba City, 261-0023 Japan

http://www2005.org/access/

When:

Panel discussion will be held Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 2:40 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.

Contact:

Winifred Shum

Verity Inc.

(408) 542-2363

wshum@verity.com

Steve Hoechster

Euro RSCG Magnet

(212) 367-6910 or (914) 393-9219

steve.hoechster@eurorscg.com

About Verity

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Verity provides software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment. The company's intellectual capital management (ICM) solutions provide integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics across the real-time flow of enterprise information, along with self-service Q & A. In addition, Verity's business process management and content capture solutions activate information and accelerate its flow from person to person and between systems. Verity technology also serves as a core component of more than 260 applications from leading independent software vendors.

Around the world, more than 11,500 organizations of all sizes and types rely on Verity to manage their intellectual capital. In the private sector, these include ABB, AT&T, AXA, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Capgemini, Capital One, Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Edgar Online, Ford, GMAC, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, KPMG, Mayo Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, UBS and Verizon. In the public sector, customers come from all levels and branches of government including the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Air Force and Army, the U.S. Department of Defense, including the armed forces units, and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice. Independent software vendors that integrate Verity include EMC Documentum, FileNet, Lotus, Oracle, Stellent, TIBCO and Xerox DocuShare.

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

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