Xerox Lexical Technology Partnering with Infoseek

XSoft and Infoseek Partner to Provide More Powerful, Accurate Internet
Searching

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 16, 1996 - XSoft, the document management arm of
Xerox Corporation, and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Infoseek Corporation,
provider of the most popular Internet search service, today announced a
partnership calling for Infoseek to incorporate XSoft's Xerox Lexical
Technology (XLT) into its new Ultraseek Internet search software, which is
expected to be generally available in June. As a result of the
partnership, Infoseek users will obtain faster and more accurate search
results than previously available.

With XLT, a search for "mouse" would also find "mice," and a search for
"swim" would also find "swam" and "swum." Thus, Ultraseek users will be
able to perform more precise searches and have a higher probability of
locating the exact information they need.

XLT accomplishes this with its high-speed stemming capability, which finds
the linguistically accurate root for each word in a document. Also, by
indexing only the word roots in its database, as opposed to each
individual word, XLT allows better, faster search results while
dramatically reducing indexing overhead.

As part of the agreement between the two companies, every Ultraseek results
page will provide a reference to the XLT technology with an associated
hyperlink to the XSoft Web home page. Users who link to the XSoft home
page will find more information on XLT and other XSoft technologies and
products.

Steve Kirsch, chairman of Infoseek, stated, "Infoseek ran a comprehensive
survey of the lexical technology available today, and XSoft's XLT quickly
emerged as the most advanced, powerful solution of its kind. No other
organization has mastered the word root/indexing capability in such an
elegant and sophisticated way as Xerox. With XLT, Ultraseek strengthens
our position in providing the easiest way to find information on the
Internet."

Steve Kiser, president of XSoft, said, "Infoseek is one of the most popular
sites on the entire Internet. The integration of XLT into Ultraseek will
benefit an extremely large group of Internet users in an immediate and
powerful way. We are pleased to be aligned with such a clear market
leader, and we look forward to an ongoing partnership that continues to
bring the most advanced information access capabilities to Internet users
everywhere."

The two companies also announced their intentions to cooperate in future
product development and marketing arrangements.

Ultraseek is Infoseek's new search technology intended to be faster, more
comprehensive and more current than any other Internet search service
available. Ultraseek has the capability to handle up to 1,000 queries per
second&#185; and is intended to have the largest, and the first virtually
real-time index of the Internet available.

Xerox Lexical technology, originally developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto
Research Center), is marketed by XSoft in the form of a technology product
for OEMs. In addition to the capabilities described earlier, XLT's
underlying architecture can support a variety of linguistic analysis
techniques for international languages with a single application
programming interface (API) and a single body of code. Languages currently
available are English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and
Japanese. XLT is part of XSoft's OEM Portfolio of intelligent information
access and management technology products.

INFOSEEK

Infoseek Corporation, a privately-held company in Santa Clara, Calif.,
provides a leading Internet navigation service. Infoseek Guide was
recently named the number one site in advertising revenue by SIMBA
Information. Infoseek also received the 1996 PC World Pro/E award for Best
Internet Search Engine. Additional information on Infoseek is available by
accessing URL http://www.infoseek.com.

XSOFT

XSoft is the document management arm of Xerox Corporation. Headquartered on
a campus with PARC, the renowned Xerox research center in Palo Alto,
Calif., XSoft provides software products and technologies that enhance
knowledge by making information more useful and business processes more
efficient.

XSoft's products and technologies operate on multiple operating systems,
networks, and computer platforms. They are sold through a worldwide
network of direct and OEM sales and reseller partners.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

For additional information about XSoft and its products and services,
customers may call 800-428-2995 or 415-813-6920. They may also visit the
XSoft home page on the World Wide Web at: http://www.xsoft.com.

XSoft news releases and other marketing materials are available via fax
retrieval by calling 415-813-7181 or by e-mail (info@xsoft.xerox.com).
 
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