MetaCrawler Meta-Search Engine Re-launches with New and Improved Design and Next Generation Meta-Search Product, Including Google Search Results

Business Wire, Sept 4, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2002

MetaCrawler's new and improved design delivers faster, cleaner and

easier-to-use search experience; includes Google search results and

relevant text-based advertisements

MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com), one of the first search properties on the Internet and part of the InfoSpace Network (Nasdaq:INSP), today announced a new and improved design, and next generation meta-search product, which includes search results and targeted ads from Google.

MetaCrawler re-launched today with an updated design. Benefits of the new design include meta-search engine homepage and Web search results pages that are cleaner and easier-to-use and advertising components that are fewer, more targeted and less obtrusive, so that users are able to find the results they are looking for faster.

The new MetaCrawler returns results from leading search companies and properties, including Google, FAST, Overture, About, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, LookSmart, Inktomi and SearchHippo. InfoSpace announced the addition of Google to its meta-search products in a separate press release today. The re-launch of MetaCrawler represents the first integration of Google into InfoSpace's network of Web search Internet properties. Today's Google press release can be viewed at http://www.businesswire.com/insp/index-ep.shtml.> "Today's MetaCrawler is much improved and we believe that our users will agree, as the enhancements are directly tied to their feedback," said York Baur, InfoSpace executive vice president, wireline and broadband. "Our Web Search team continues to improve our products and the fast, relevant results they deliver. The re-launch of MetaCrawler, as well as the addition of Google to the engines we search, are the latest examples of our efforts."

The new MetaCrawler also now delivers InfoSpace's next generation meta-search technology, which was launched recently at both Excite (www.excite.com) and WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com).

InfoSpace's meta-search technology allows users to search multiple engines at once, returning comprehensive and highly relevant results fast. Because various search engines return better results for different types of queries, InfoSpace's proprietary meta-search algorithm, which is designed to identify the intent of a user's search, sorts the results accordingly and then displays a blended mix of highly relevant commercial and non-commercial results for a given search.

About MetaCrawler

MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com), one of the first search properties on the Internet, is a meta-search engine, which allows users to search multiple search engines at once, returning the most comprehensive and relevant results fast. MetaCrawler is part of the InfoSpace Network (Nasdaq:INSP).

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding the Company's MetaCrawler meta-search engine. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's Annual Report on Form 10-K, in the section entitled "Factors Affecting Our Operating Results, Business Prospects and Market Price of Stock." Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpace undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.