YAHOO! TEAMS WITH OPEN TEXT TO OFFER MOST COMPREHENSIVE & EFFICIENT
SEARCHES ON THE NET

Open Text's Web Search Server Technology Expands Yahoo!'s Online Guide with
Internet-Wide Search Capabilities and Word-by-Word Indexing

NEW YORK, NY -- September 18, 1995 -- Yahoo! Corporation, publisher of the
most intuitive, up-to-date and efficient guide to the online world, and
Open Text Corporation, developer of the Internet's most powerful text
indexing and search engine, announced today a partnership to incorporate
the Open Text Web Search Server OEM technology into the Yahoo! online
guide. This partnership will enhance Yahoo! with the powerful
Internet-wide, word-by-word search capabilities of the Open Text 5 search
engine and enable the guide to satisfy all of the diverse search needs of
Internet users. Users will get their first glimpse of Yahoo!'s expanded
search capabilities in early October.

"We're partnering with Open Text because our technical evaluation showed
Open Text to be the most powerful indexing technology available to enhance
our online guide," said Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!. "The Open Text
technology expands Yahoo! with an intelligent 'back of the book'
word-by-word index of the entire Internet, which complements Yahoo!'s
'front of the book' comprehensive hierarchical index. This integration
boosts the efficiency and productivity of both browsing and more serious
searching on Yahoo!, and therefore broadens Yahoo!'s appeal to a wider
range of Internet users."

Tom Jenkins, president and CEO of Open Text commented, "As the premiere
guide to the online world, Yahoo! is doing exactly what our Web Search
Server technology was designed to accomplish -- satisfy the needs of
consumers and working professionals by enabling them to more easily
navigate through the Internet and gather meaningful information. We've
established a close working relationship to drive the tight integration of
Yahoo! with our Web Search Server OEM tool kit. Together, we're giving
Internet users an unbeatable combination of directory-based and
intelligent full-text searching unavailable anywhere else on the Net."

Under the terms of the partnership, Yahoo! will seamlessly integrate the
Open Text Search Server technology into its guide's intuitive hierarchical
index format. The Open Text technology uses automated software called
"crawlers" to index every word and every page of the entire Internet.
These crawlers re-visit Web pages on an ongoing basis to ensure the Open
Text master index remains current. The integration of Open Text's
technology into Yahoo! will position Yahoo! as the most comprehensive
guide to the online world with the most efficient category-based,
Internet-wide search capabilities.

Yahoo!'s Enhanced Search Capabilities

Yahoo!'s implementation of the Open Text Web Search Server technology will
enable its users to conduct simple searches for specific words and
phrases, multi-level Boolean searches and even weighted searches. These
searches can be narrowed to specific categories in Yahoo!'s hierarchical
index. Yahoo! users also will benefit from the Open Text 5 search engine's
ability to understand the structure and elements of Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML), the language used to create Internet documents. This
unique feature enables Yahoo! users to use structural considerations such
as document title, sub headings, body copy and footnotes as qualifiers for
their searches. Additionally, the Open Text technology will uncover
documents "similar" to those a user has already found. This capability
allows Yahoo! users to expand their searches gradually, based on highly
flexible criteria.

About Yahoo!

Located in Mountain View, Calif., Yahoo! is a company devoted to enabling
consumers and working professionals to make the most of their online
experiences. Yahoo! publishes the most intuitive, up- to-date and
efficient guide for information and online discovery, which bears its same
name. The guide is one of the most frequently visited sites on the
Internet's World Wide Web with nearly 300,000 users a day. Much more than
a simple directory or search engine, Yahoo!'s guide enables users to
navigate through the Internet and gather their own online information for
both business and pleasure. Additionally, the guide is an ideal home base
for net surfing. Yahoo! can be found on the Internet's World Wide Web at
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address http://www.yahoo.com.

About Open Text

Open Text Corporation, located in Waterloo, Ontario, provides software and
systems that enable people to find and manage information, use it
collaboratively, and share the results over webs, worldwide or local. Its
first project 10 years ago -- developing a search engine for the on-line
version of the Oxford English Dictionary -- led the company to create a
core index and search technology that is uniquely suited to locating
information on the Internet's World Wide Web. The company's offering
include: a powerful indexing engine (Open Text 5); a system for finding
and viewing electronic documents anywhere on a network or web (Open Text
Latitude); a set of tools enabling OEMs and organizations to index
information on an internal or external web (the Open Text Web Search
Server); and the Internet's most comprehensive power search service (the
Open Text Index), offered free of charge to any Web user. Open Text can be
reached via the company's Web home page at http://www. opentext.com.
 
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