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Company Press Release

SurfWax.com Improves Web Searching with Real-Time Abstracts

Redwood City, Calif., May 16, 2000 -- SurfWax.com today launched real-time web page abstracts (SiteSnaps™) -- the next in a series of enhancements to its patent-pending, highly-rated meta-search site (www.surfwax.com). SurfWax™ is the only site in the world to offer these personalized, real-time web page summaries.

"Users love our SiteSnaps -- now we offer 'real-time’ SiteSnaps -- brief summaries created on-the-fly. We can provide SiteSnaps for every web page, in a manner that will let us take personalization to a new level," states Thomas D. Holt, developer of SurfWax. Real-time SiteSnaps provide the user with both faster search results and web page abstracts that are always current and easily customized to the user's preferences.

"Real-time SiteSnaps are part of our strategy to deliver Search Satisfaction and Knowledge Sharing to all the web, including wireless users," states Walter J. Sleeth, Director for SurfWax Wireless services. SurfWax is now one step closer to its next generation of highly-personalized knowledge objects that provide the basis of knowledge sharing; "an area of the web that represents huge potential," adds Larry S. Burke, SurfWax CTO.

About VORT Corporation:
The company has spent four years developing SurfWax as a tool to improve search satisfaction and knowledge sharing technology as applied to the Internet and intranets.

Contact: Thomas D. Holt, President & CEO
VORT Corporation
(650) 322-8282
www.surfwax.com
tom@surfwax.com
Copyright © 2000 VORT Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Patents pending. SurfWax and SiteSnaps are trademarks of VORT Corporation. VORT is a registered trademark of VORT Corporation.