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Most Americans Think U.S. is in a Recession According to Latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll

Business Wire, May 8, 2008

PRINCETON, N.J. -- More than 3/4's of Americans think the economy is now in a recession Opinion Research Corporation (an infoUSA Company) (NASDAQ:IUSA) today announced. In the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted April 28-30, 79% of respondents said they thought the economy was in a recession vs. only 19% who said "no". This compares to 61% who said they thought the economy was in a recession in early January 2008, and only 46% in a poll conducted last October.

The Poll was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on April 28-30, 2008 which interviewed 1,008 adult Americans by telephone. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

About Opinion Research

Opinion Research, an infoUSA company, has offered innovative solutions to the toughest market research challenges of clients worldwide since 1938. Since the 1960s, ORC has conducted CARAVAN, the USA's longest continuously running consumer omnibus, which is the model for the Small Business CARAVAN. In addition, the firm has been conducting national, speech reaction, state and flash/overnight polls for CNN since April 2006. To learn more, visit www.opinionresearch.com.

About infoUSA

infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer databases for sales leads & mailing lists, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own 12 proprietary databases under one roof. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites. Nearly 4 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500. To know more about Sales Leads, click www.infousa.com. To get a 72-hour free trial and 100 free sales leads, click www.salesgenie.com.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, recent changes in senior management, the successful integration of recent and future acquisitions, fluctuations in operating results, failure to successfully carry out our Internet strategy or to grow our Internet revenue, effects of leverage, changes in technology and increased competition. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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