Search Visionaries from Endeca, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verity, and Yahoo! to be Featured on Panel at the International World Wide Web Conference

Business Wire, May 10, 2005

CHIBA, Japan and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation(R), Search and Analysis solutions, today announced that Steve Papa, Endeca's founder and chairman, will be a featured speaker at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference this week in Chiba, Japan. Papa will be joined by search visionaries from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Verity (NASDAQ: VRTY) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) to discuss and debate one of the hottest trends shaping the future of search and information retrieval: The integration of search and browsing. As the inventor of Guided Navigation - a next-generation approach to information discovery that integrates search and browsing into a single, seamless function - Endeca is at the forefront of this popular, emerging trend.

WHO:   Steve Papa, founder and chairman, Endeca will be joined by:
       Krishna Bharat, principal scientist, Google Inc.
       Susan Dumais, senior researcher, Microsoft Research
       Jan Pedersen, chief scientist, Yahoo Inc.
       Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president and CTO, Verity, Inc.

       Moderators: Andrei Z. Broder, IBM T.J. Watson Research
       Center, USA; Yoelle S. Maarek, IBM Research, Israel

WHAT:  Panel: "Current Trends in the Integration of Search and
       Browsing"

WHEN:  Wednesday, May 11, 2:40 to 4:10 p.m.

WHERE: Hotel New Otani, Chiba, Japan

About Endeca

Endeca's award-winning Guided Navigation, Enterprise Search, and Analysis solutions help organizations integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with information overload. Endeca's customers include a wide range of enterprises, including retailers (Barnes & Noble, The Home Depot, Wal-Mart); financial services (Bank of America, MFS Investment Management, Putnam Investments); manufacturing and distribution (IBM, Arrow Electronics, and John Deere); media and publishing (World Book and IHS) and government (the Library of Congress, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information: www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.

Endeca, Endeca InFront, Endeca Navigation Engine and Guided Navigation are registered trademarks, and Endeca ProFind and Endeca Latitude are trademarks of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.