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To: Robert T. Tasedan who wrote (2247)	1/22/1998 3:44:00 AM
From: alex	Respond to of 3307

Quarterdeck Announces Licensing Agreement With Verity, Inc. To Provide Local Search Engine for REALHELP Product Line Wednesday, January 21, 1998 04:15 PM > MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- Quarterdeck Corporation (Nasdaq:QDEK) announced today that Verity, Inc., a leading provider of search and retrieval applications for the enterprise and Internet, has licensed its search engine technology to Quarterdeck for integration into current and future versions of REALHELP, the Company's product line for the prevention, monitoring and repair of PC problems and conflicts. Verity will license its patented search engine to Quarterdeck for use in REALHELP's Find-A-Fix feature, which saves users time and frustration by providing a singular mechanism, instead of multiple resources, to quickly locate solutions to almost any computing problem. Find-A-Fix utilizes a combination of Quarterdeck's award-winning WebCompass metasearching technology and advanced searching and indexing techniques from Verity to search the Internet and a set of local solution databases to find the best solution to solve the problem. For small and medium-size businesses, Find-A-Fix is an essential tool for reducing the total cost of PC ownership and empowering users to quickly find solutions themselves without having to rely on technical support personnel. "The information search and retrieval tools from Verity provide REALHELP with a comprehensive level of functionality in this unique software category," said Gary Ulaner, group product manager for REALHELP at Quarterdeck Corporation. "The ability to easily search for solutions to PC problems with Verity's search engine is yet another feature of REALHELP which gives users the tools they need to properly care for and maintain their PCs themselves." "Verity is pleased to be an integral part of Quarterdeck's REALHELP software," said Ronald Weissman, vice president of worldwide marketing for Verity, Inc. "Customer service/help applications are at the forefront of sophisticated knowledge solutions. Through our partnership with Quarterdeck, hundreds of thousands of users will use sophisticated search technology to improve the health, performance and quality of their desktop computing environment."