27.03.2006 14:00:00
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Judy's Book and Local.com Announce Partnership; Leading Local Search Engine and Local Reviews Sites Join Forces
Beginning in April 2006, excerpts from the most recent consumerreviews written at Judy's Book will be integrated with Local.comsearch results for the entire U.S. In addition, Local.com customerswill be encouraged to write reviews of the businesses they find onLocal.com, using Judy's Book as the "reviews engine" for the site.These reviews will then be displayed at both Local.com andjudysbook.com, allowing both companies to expand their reach anddeliver an even higher-quality local search experience to theirrespective users.
"Local.com is the fastest-growing local search destination on theWeb, and Judy's Book is becoming the nation's leading site for localconsumer reviews," said Andy Sack, CEO and co-founder of Judy's Book."Together, we're making it easier than ever for people to find andchoose the best local business in towns around the country, based ontrustworthy recommendations from real people," said Sack.
"Adding content from Judy's Book and providing an opportunity towrite reviews will further enrich our users' search experience onLocal.com," said Rob Luskey, director of strategic alliances forInterchange. "Our strategy is to drive repeat usage by providing deep,rich, value-added content to our consumers which ultimately enhancestheir ability to make more informed purchase and shopping decisions,"said Luskey.
About Judy's Book, Inc.
Judy's Book, Inc., was founded in 2004 by internet entrepreneursAndy Sack and Chris DeVore and is backed by Mobius Venture Capital,Ignition Partners, Ackerley Partners and angel investors. Based inSeattle, Judy's Book was inspired by Judy Albert -- co-founder AndySack's mother-in-law -- a long-time Seattle resident whose "littlegreen book" of favorite local businesses became a sought-afterresource among her friends and family. Visit http://www.judysbook.comto search referrals from people near you, or sign up for a freemembership to share your own local favorites.
About Interchange Corporation
Interchange Corporation (Nasdaq:INCX) owns Local.com(www.local.com), a leading local-search engine that has grown to over8 million visitors per month and is powered by the company'sproprietary Keyword DNA(TM) and local-web indexing technologies. Thecompany serves local and national Internet, wireless and operatorassisted local-search markets in the United States and Europe.Interchange generates revenue principally from paid-searchadvertising. The company recently launched a domain syndicationnetwork in the United States, and has also announced plans to launchLocal.com in various markets during 2006.
The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, with Europeanheadquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information onInterchange, please visit: www.interchangeusa.com.
Forward-Looking Statements: All statements other than statementsof historical fact included in this document regarding our anticipatedfinancial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of ourmanagement for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Whenused in this report, words such as "anticipate," "believe,""estimate," "plans," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, asthey relate to Interchange or our management, identify forward-lookingstatements. Any forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs ofour management as well as assumptions made by and informationcurrently available to our management. Actual results could differmaterially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statementsas a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, ourability to stabilize our national paid search advertising business,our ability to operate, grow and monetize our local search engine,Local.com, and incorporate our local-search technologies, market theLocal.com domain as a destination for consumers seeking local-searchresults, grow our business by enhancing our local-search services,improve our filtering technologies expand our Advertiser andDistribution Networks, expand internationally, integrate theoperations and effectively utilize the technology of Inspire, aSwedish Internet and wireless local-search technology company, whichwe recently acquired, integrate the operations and effectively utilizethe technology of Inspire, develop our products and sales, marketing,finance and administrative functions and successfully integrate ourexpanded infrastructure, as well as our dependence on majoradvertisers, competitive factors and pricing pressures, changes inlegal and regulatory requirements, and general economic conditions.Any forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respectto future events and are subject to these and other risks,uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results ofoperations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written andoral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons actingon our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by thisparagraph.
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