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Switchboard.com Introduces Simplified Navigation for Quickly and Easily Finding Businesses and People
Friday February 24, 7:30 am ET


BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2006--Switchboard.com, a leading provider of Internet-based yellow pages and white pages, today introduced a redesigned site with improved refinement tools and simplified navigation that allows users to find information faster and easier. Developed following extensive research and usability testing, the new Switchboard.com brings a consistent look and user experience from application to application.
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To aid Switchboard.com visitors, the home page now defaults to the "find a business" section, the most trafficked on the site. Data on Switchboard.com was recently enhanced through an agreement with infoUSA (Nasdaq:IUSA - News), one of the leading suppliers of business information. In addition to improving the ability for users to send business information to their mobile device, users can now send Switchboard's white pages listings to their mobile device, creating continuity between their online and mobile experiences.

"Switchboard.com continues to evolve the concept of a traditional print directory into an interactive and dynamic medium, with a central focus on helping consumers connect with local small and medium-sized businesses that have leveraged the Web to more effectively promote their products and services," said Rod Diefendorf, vice president of online and local search. "The new look and functionality on Switchboard.com better facilitates those interactions."

About Switchboard.com

Switchboard (Switchboard.com) is a leading provider of Internet-based yellow and white pages that helps consumers by providing a fast, easy solution to finding businesses and people nationwide, and connects consumers with merchants through interactive and innovative directory technology. Switchboard.com introduced the Internet's first interactive yellow pages display ads, serving more than 20,000 ads covering 2,000 categories. Today, Switchboard.com continues to innovate by allowing its users to send directory information to their mobile phones, enabling them to find businesses and people quickly and efficiently from any device. Switchboard is a business of InfoSpace, Inc.

About InfoSpace

InfoSpace, Inc. (Nasdaq:INSP - News) drives mobile media innovation. With one of the world's largest mobile content libraries, InfoSpace makes it easy for consumers to discover, personalize and enjoy their on-the-go experiences. The company uses its superior discovery, merchandising and technology capabilities to help facilitate the delivery of original and licensed content across hundreds of mobile devices and through multiple channels. InfoSpace also mobilizes brands and creates programming and revenue opportunities for mobile operators. The company's products and services have extensive reach in North America and Europe through carriers such as Cingular Wireless, Orange, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Verizon Wireless, and Virgin Mobile; in partnership with world-class brands such as Cablevision and Fox News; and through online Web sites such as Dogpile (Dogpile.com), which showcase the company's leading metasearch technology, and key advertising partnerships with companies like Google, Yahoo!, Verizon SuperPages and Yellowpages.com. More information can be found at www.infospaceinc.com.

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding InfoSpace, Inc.'s Switchboard.com business and its Internet-based yellow pages and white pages applications. 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. Factors that could affect InfoSpace's actual results include the scope and timing of market acceptance of Switchboard.com's yellow pages and white pages applications and their new features. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q as filed from time to time, 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.



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