Convera and Diversified Business Communications Launch Custom Search For Integrative Healthcare Practitioner

Vienna, Va, February 9, 2009 - Convera, a leading provider of vertical search and audience development solutions for publishers, today announced the launch of a custom search solution for integrative healthcare community with publishing partner Diversified Business Communications.

IntegrativePractitionerSearch is developed for integrative healthcare professionals to find the most relevant information about their industry on the web,” said Brian Randall, Vice President of eMedia of Diversified Business Communications. “We combined our editorial expertise and resources with Convera’s intelligent site and vertical search technologies.

Our custom search solution provides relevant search results and search refinements that are precisely targeted for the integrative practitioner community. This offers our advertising partners highly targeted sponsorship opportunities with search and contextual advertising.”

Randall added, “We are quite pleased with Convera’s self-service tools and technical services. Using Convera’s Publisher Control Panel, we can continually monitor, tweak and improve user experience and increase the value of our information services.” 

Convera and United Publications Launch Multiple Sites for Security and Home Medical Equipment Communities

Vienna, Va, February 7, 2009 - Convera, a leading provider of vertical search and audience development solutions for publishers, today announced the launch of multiple custom search sites for the home medical equipment and security industries with publishing partner United Publications. "HMEwebsearch.com is created for home medical equipment providers to find the most relevant information about their industry on the web," said Brook Taliaferro, President and CEO of United Publications. "It organizes the search results and information by providers, manufacturers, and associations.

We integrated site search and vertical search into a single search box. This enables quick and relevant access to our own content as well as the most authoritative content on the web.” The custom search solutions for the security industry professionals are targeted towards two distinct audiences. SDNwebsearch.com is aimed at security directors in commercial enterprises, the public sector, retail and hospitality industries whereas SSNwebsearch.com is aimed at commercial and systems integrators, distributors, monitoring service providers, and security consultants.

Taliaferro added, “Convera enabled us to develop these sites quickly so we can increase the value of our content and information services to our user communities and offer targeted category advertising opportunities for our advertisers.”
 

Convera and BNA Launch Custom Search Site for HR Professionals

Vienna, Va, January 19, 2009 - Convera, a leading provider of vertical search and audience development solutions for publishers, today announced the launch of International HR Search, a custom search site for the global human resources industry, with publishing partner BNA."International HR Search is a custom solution that allows HR professionals to find the most relevant information about their industry quickly and easily," said Robert Shew, Group Publisher of BNA Human Resources and Payroll division.

"HR, benefits, and payroll professionals turn to BNA to get fast answers to the questions they face every day. With our new custom search site, we can provide our member community a quick and relevant user experience when they are searching. We present them with results and information from the human resources slice of the web as well as results from our HR and Payroll publications.”Each of the websites and resources included in the custom International HR search database has been selected by the editors of BNA. The search results can be organized by geographic region such as Americas, Africa/Middle East, Asia/Pacific, Europe/UK, or all international HR sites.

Shew added, “Convera enabled us to integrate vertical search into the research and exploration workflow of our international online community. We are planning to enhance our custom International HR search solution with refinements and downloadable widgets further extending the value of our content and services to HR professional.
 

Convera to create nursing vertical search site for Wolters Kluwer Health

Vienna, Va., October 15, 2008 — Convera Corporation (NASDAQ: CNVR), www.convera.com, a leading provider of vertical search services for publishers, today announced that it has signed a contract with the global publisher Wolters Kluwer to build vertical search engines for NursingCenter.com, a leading web site for nurses from the Wolters Kluwer Health division.Wolters Kluwer Health plays a leading role in driving medical excellence. Its products and services are used by professionals and organizations in almost every aspect of healthcare and across the world to advance knowledge and its application to improve patient care.

Convera and Wolters Kluwer Health will initially provide vertical search and site search for the Nursing Centre, an online resource to assist in the continuous training for US nursing professionals. The combination of a sophisticated site search across Wolters Kluwer’s highly regarded proprietary information and nursing best practice alongside a vertical search aggregating the most authoritative Web content will provide a uniquely comprehensive information service to the nursing community.Vertical search sites, vertical search toolbars and widgets are increasingly being seen by B2B publishers as a way of extending their brands into the essential workflow of their online communities.
 

Convera to Create Vertical Search Sites for United Publications

Vienna, Va., October 13, 2008 Convera Corporation (NASDAQ: CNVR), www.convera.com, a leading provider of vertical search services for publishers, today announced that it has signed a contract with the specialist publisher United Publications to build three vertical search engines for their portfolio. The first two are for their Security print brands serving professional communities involved in security systems, security installations and security consultancy in the United States and Europe.

The second is for Home Medical Equipment, serving home medical equipment services providers, including traditional dealers and suppliers, distributors and manufacturers. Brook Taliaferro, the president of United Publications, said, “ United Publications see vertical search as a strategy to extend our brands online and also serve the information needs of our audience.By partnering with and using Convera’s “search as a service”, we will be able to achieve these goals quickly and efficiently and with a low-cost of ownership”.

Vertical search sites, toolbars and widgets, aggregating and presenting the most authoritative Web content, are increasingly being seen by business publishers as a way of extending their brands into the essential workflow of their online communities. United Publications community of users will benefit from being able to use such tools alongside their market-leading events, publications and websites
 

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