The New York Times On the Web Goes Live With Virage Video Search Technology; Virage Now Provides Video Search Services to nytimes.com to Enhance Campaign 2000 Coverage

Business Wire, Jan 14, 2000

Business/High Tech Editors

SAN MATEO, Calif./NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2000

Virage Inc., provider of interactive video search products and services, announced today that The New York Times on the Web (www.nytimes.com) is using Virage video search engine technology and services.

The Times on the Web is part of Virage's growing broadband video syndication network that provides worldwide users with on-demand access to video coverage of the American presidential campaign.

By incorporating Virage's Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine, premier news organizations are providing their readers with comprehensive Internet video coverage of leading political candidates on the road to the White House. The Virage-enhanced Times site is located at http://www.nytimes.com/politics.> "Our mission is to provide our readers with high-quality news and information, and to get it to them in as efficient a manner as possible," said Richard Meislin, editor in chief of Times Company Digital, the Internet unit of The New York Times Company. "Virage's video engine combined with C-SPAN's vast video collection enhance our comprehensive political coverage by giving our readers instant access to unfiltered, searchable video material about the candidates and campaigns."

The New York Times on the Web is using Virage Interactive(tm) services and Virage's Internet video infrastructure to integrate video search seamlessly into its site, enabling viewers to locate the televised speeches of presidential candidates quickly by any topic or keyword. Using a familiar search-engine style interface, the Virage video search application returns relevant video clips for viewers to watch from a comprehensive archive of unedited C-SPAN footage that is growing over the course of the 2000 campaign.

About Virage, Inc.

Virage provides products and application services that transform video into searchable and interactive Internet content. Virage Interactive(tm) services provide content owners with the complete infrastructure for seamlessly integrating Internet-compliant video into their web sites. Virage's VideoLogger(tm) and AudioLogger(tm) software set the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan. Virage customers include ABC, AltaVista, Associated Press, BBC, Boeing, CBS, CNET, CNN, Compaq, C-SPAN, FBI, Fox Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, iVillage.com, Lifetime Entertainment, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, NASA, NBCi/SNAP.com, New York Stock Exchange, NTT, ON24, PBS, Reuters, Swiss Radio-TV, Telecinco, and Young & Rubicam. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Virage was incorporated in 1995 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets. Contact Virage at http://www.virage.com/ or 650/573-3210.

About Times Company Digital

Times Company Digital (TCD) serves a quality audience online by providing high-quality news, information and interaction through its own premier Web sites as well as affiliate partners. TCD's family of sites includes The New York Times on the Web (www.nytimes.com), Boston.com (www.boston.com), NYToday (www.nytoday.com), WineToday.com (www.winetoday.com), GolfDigest.com (www.golfdigest.com) and Abuzz (www.abuzz.com), which provides sophisticated community and knowledge-sharing applications for use on the Internet. Times Company Digital is a division of The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT).

Virage and the Virage logo are registered trademarks and VideoLogger, AudioLogger and Virage Interactive services are trademarks of Virage, Inc. All others are trademarks of their respective companies.