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PriceGrabber.com Appoints Dennis Holt and Christopher McGurk to Its Board of Directors

Business Wire, Oct 24, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- PriceGrabber.com, a leader in online comparison shopping, is pleased to announce that Dennis Holt and Christopher McGurk have recently joined the Board of Directors of PriceGrabber.com.

"Dennis and Chris bring to us a wealth of experience in building major companies," said PriceGrabber President and CEO, Kamran Pourzanjani. "They are respected business leaders who possess established track records of growing successful public companies. We look forward to the contributions that they will make to our long-term success as we continue with our corporate growth and expansion."

Dennis Holt currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Patriot Communications LLC, a telecommunications service bureau he created in 1990 as a subsidiary of Western International Media. Also, Holt serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. International Media LLC. Prior to Patriot, Holt founded Western International Media, a media buying service, which became the largest of its kind in the United States. He was Chairman of Western International Media from 1970 through January 2002. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Administration from the University of Southern California. Holt currently serves on the boards of two publicly-traded companies -- Westwood One (NYSE:WON) and United Online (NASDAQ:UNTD).

As former Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM), Christopher McGurk oversaw all operations of MGM from May 1999 through April 2005. McGurk came to MGM from Universal Pictures, a division of Seagrams, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his tenure at Universal, McGurk spent eight years with The Walt Disney Studios, including two years as President of the Company's Motion Picture Group. Before Disney, McGurk worked for six years in various finance, sales and planning posts at PepsiCo, before advancing to Chief Financial Officer of Pepsi Cola East. He received a Bachelor Of Science degree from Syracuse University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.

About PriceGrabber.com

PriceGrabber is a leading provider of online comparison shopping services that allows millions of consumers to search and compare information about products, services, merchants and sellers in order to make an educated purchase decision. Through continued innovation and consistent focus on providing the best comparison shopping experience on the Internet, PriceGrabber has established itself as one of the most trusted and effective online destinations for savvy shopping. By using PriceGrabber, shoppers can instantly find and compare millions of unique products and services from thousands of merchants and sellers in 22 product and service channels, thereby enabling users to find the right product/service from the right merchant/seller at the best price. Millions of online shoppers have saved considerable time and money by making PriceGrabber an integral part of their shopping process. The company also powers comparison shopping functionality for a network of leading Internet sites, including MSN Shopping, AskJeeves, About.com and Comcast, thus providing millions of users across these sites access to the PriceGrabber comparison shopping solution. The company offers comparison shopping in English (at www.pricegrabber.com), Spanish (at www.preciomania.com) and Portuguese (at www.precomania.com) as well as international sites in Canada and the United Kingdom. PriceGrabber is headquartered in Los Angeles.

PriceGrabber is a registered trademark, and PriceGrabber.com and BottomLinePrice are trademarks of PriceGrabber.com, LLC. Other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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