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25 Jun 2007 08:01

InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ:INSP), a leading developer of proprietarymetasearch technologies, today formally announced a partnership withblinkx (London AIM:BLNX), the world's largest video search engine, tooffer video search capabilities for InfoSpace's family of metasearchbrands, including Dogpile.com, the award-winning search engine whichreturns top results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Ask.com toprovide users with the most relevant and useful information. Asconsumer demand for online video content continues to grow, thepartnership allows InfoSpace to offer users the same breadth andrelevancy of video search results as it does with text-based Websearch results. £ "Video search has become increasingly popular among today's Websearchers, and this addition allows us to offer Dogpile users a morevisual and interactive search experience," said Brian McManus,executive vice president of the online business unit at InfoSpace."blinkx is a leader in the video search space, and we chose them topower our offering because of their extensive video content libraryand advanced video search technology. blinkx also provides resultsfrom a variety of video aggregators such as Brightcove, which makesthis partnership a great fit for Dogpile, as the leading metasearchsite in the U.S." £ In addition to this newly added video search capability, InfoSpacerecently unveiled a revamped Dogpile.com site with a refreshed lookand feel, enhanced usability and an improved metasearch algorithm.Based on the principle that no single search engine can deliver themost relevant results 100% of the time, Dogpile.com combines resultsfrom multiple engines to bring together the highest ranked results inone place. As a testament to the quality of the site, in 2006,Dogpile.com received the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates award,ranking it "Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Internet Users withPrimary Search Engines/Functions" in the U.S.A.(1) £ "InfoSpace has a well-established and trusted family of metasearchproducts, and we're delighted to provide video search capabilities totheir millions of users worldwide," said Suranga Chandratillake,founder and CEO, blinkx. "This partnership continues to build upon themomentum for our patented conceptual search technology and furtherdemonstrates our leadership in the online video arena." £ As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built areputation as the most intuitive way to search new forms of onlinecontent such as video. With more than 100 partners and twelve millionhours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TVmoments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogsand more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology todeliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standardmetadata-based keyword searches. In addition to Dogpile.com, videocontent from blinkx is now available on InfoSpace's WebFetch,WebFetchPro, and WebCrawler sites. £ About Dogpile(R) £ Web metasearch engine Dogpile (www.dogpile.com), ranked highest incustomer satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates, makes it easy forusers to search more of the Web by drawing together the top resultsfrom the most popular search engines. Dogpile.com is part of theInfoSpace family of Web search and online directory properties. £ About InfoSpace(R) £ InfoSpace, Inc. is a leading developer of tools and technologiesto help people discover and enjoy content and information -- whetheron a mobile phone or on the PC. InfoSpace uses its proprietarymetasearch technology to power a portfolio of branded Web sites,including Dogpile (www.dogpile.com) and Zoo (www.zoo.com), akid-friendly search engine, and provide private-label search andonline directory services to consumers on a global basis. Thecompany's mobile platform and applications, such as InfoSpace Find It!(www.infospacefindit.com), create revenue opportunities for carriers,while satisfying consumer demand for a highly relevant mobile userexperience. More information can be found at www.infospaceinc.com. £ About blinkx £ blinkx (London AIM:BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive videosearch engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 12 million hours ofaudio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable andavailable on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significantchallenge -- as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode,keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx'spatented search technologies listen to -- and even see -- the Web,helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results notavailable elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search formany of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in SanFrancisco and London. Go to www.blinkx.com for more information. £ (1) Footnote: Dogpile received the highest numerical score forprimary search engines in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates2006 Residential Online Service Customer Satisfaction Study(SM) basedon responses from 10,787 residential customers of internet serviceproviders, measuring 7 search engines/functions. Proprietary studyresults are based on experiences and perceptions of consumers surveyedJune - July 2006. Your experiences may vary. Visit www.jdpower.com formore information. £ This release contains forward-looking statements regardingInfoSpace's online business and its agreement with blinkx. Theseforward-looking statements are subject to certain risks anduncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materiallyfrom those projected. These statements are not guarantees of futureperformance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties andassumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affectInfoSpace's actual results include the performance under the agreementwith blinkx, the progress and costs of the development of our productsand services and the timing of market acceptance of those products andservices, including the extent of user adoption and usage ofInfoSpace's metasearch offerings. A more detailed description ofcertain factors that could affect actual results include, but are notlimited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's most recent QuarterlyReport on Form 10-Q, in the section entitled "Risk Factors." Readersare cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-lookingstatements, which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpaceundertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-lookingstatements to reflect new information, events or circumstances afterthe date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipatedevents. Copyright Business Wire 2007