VIENNA, Va., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Convera Corporation , a leading provider of search technologies for professional workers, today announced it has been selected by prime contractor Vivisimo to support the image search at FirstGov.gov, the official web portal of the United States Government (http://www.firstgov.gov/). Convera search technology will be supplementing the image index for FirstGov.gov search, enabling FirstGov.gov to better deliver images in response to the millions of queries made by citizens visiting the portal every year.

"We are very pleased to welcome Convera and their leading search technology to the team supporting Firstgov.gov," said Rebecca Thompson, vice president of marketing of Vivisimo. "Vivisimo is committed to bringing a world class search experience to every visitor looking for information, and in the process making our government more responsive and transparent to its citizens."

The new FirstGov.gov search service delivers a superior, streamlined experience by selectively crawling government documents, web pages and meta search resources and organizing the results into logical categories. Users spend less time navigating in a vast sea of government information, and in a much shorter period of time receive relevant responses to their information queries. The added technology will provide site users access to the over one billion images contained and categorized within the Convera Web index.

"As most are aware, Convera has been delivering search technology to the government market for more than 10 years now and we are extremely pleased to continue building on our relationships within this very important sector," said Kurt Gastrock, chief operating officer of Convera.

About Convera

Convera(R) is a leading provider of search technologies for professional workers. Convera has developed a unified product platform that makes sense of vast amounts of information -- wherever it resides -- across multiple data formats, languages and meanings. Based on proprietary technologies that extract relevant results from public and private data, Convera enables professionals to quickly retrieve exactly the information essential for action. The Convera search platform, TrueKnowledge Platform(TM), is delivered as a hosted service, software or a bundled hardware and software package. Thousands of government and business professionals in 40 countries rely on Convera search solutions to power a broad range of mission critical applications.

This release, including any statements from Convera personnel, contains statements about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions and trends; the ability to continue funding operating losses; fluctuations in operating results including impacts from reduced corporate IT spending and lengthier sales cycles; continued success in technological advances and development including the TrueKnowledge Platform(TM); possible disruption in commercial activities caused by terrorist activity and armed conflict, such as changes in logistics and security arrangements; reduced customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the company's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera's filings with the SEC. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at http://www.sec.gov/. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements. "The Convera design logo and the following are trademarks of Convera in the United States and other countries: Convera(R), the Convera design logo, Screening Room(R), RetrievalWare(R), Excalibur(TM), Govmine(TM), baseRelevance(TM), TrueKnowledge Platform(TM), TrueB2B(TM), TrueKnowledge for Enterprise(TM), TrueKnowledge for Discovery(TM), TrueKnowledge for Web(TM), and Knewworld(TM)."

CONTACT: Christopher Parente of Strategic Communications Group,
+1-301-408-4500, cparente@gotostrategic.com, for Convera Corporation

Web site: http://www.convera.com/
http://www.firstgov.gov/