Intelliseek Announces Web and Vertical Search Services

Intelliseek, a industry leading provider of Infrastructure for Intelligent Portals, announced its new, fully co-brandable services, Intelliseek Web Search and Intelliseek Vertical Search.

With these products, Intelliseek extends its business-to-business strategy by providing Web sites, B2B exchanges and vertical and affinity portals with co- brandable and customizable services to help them differentiate their offerings, retain users and generate revenue.

These new product offerings are a direct result of Intelliseek's April 2000 acquisition of ProFusion.com. Prior to the acquisition, Intelliseek offered their co-brandable BullsEye desktop product-line, which has earned the reputation as the best application in its class among worldwide technology press and business users. Now, Intelliseek delivers the same high level of technology in a server-side offering by providing Intelliseek Web Search and Vertical Search services for partner site integration. Partners can differentiate themselves from their competitors, keep users on their site and generate additional revenue, while their users are provided with unique and valuable content that matches their particular area of interest.

Intelliseek Web Search is the only search service that can integrate content from structured and unstructured data sources including standard Web pages, a catalog of over 12,000 specialty databases directories and archives, dozens of real time news feeds, and a partner's proprietary sources, all within a single, seamless interface.

Intelliseek Vertical Search is ideal for specialized sites, such as vertical portals, business-to-business exchanges and affinity or community sites to stand out from the competition. Intelliseek provides 10 popular, pre-defined categories to choose from, including Business, Computing, Health, Entertainment, Investment and Sports. In addition, Intelliseek can uniquely tailor these by adding new sources, or even create new categories. For example, Intelliseek built a special category search for Family Tree Magazine, a publication for genealogy hobbyists, with over 25 sources on genealogy to meet the specialized search needs of their users.

Both the Web Search and Vertical Search services are built on Intelliseek's Adaptive Search Technology, which automatically selects and searches the best sources of information for any user query. This means that extremely targeted searches can be performed, eliminating irrelevant hits.

"Virtually everyone who uses the Web needs to search, and providing high-quality, targeted resources is essential to generating repeat traffic," said Mahendra Vora, Intelliseek president and CEO. "Intelliseek Web Search and Vertical Search offer partners vehicles to provide their users with accurate results while increasing their retention and generating revenue for the partner."

Intelliseek Web Search and Vertical Search are ASP services for online partners to offer directly from their Web sites. Search results can be delivered via XML or text so partners can format them as they wish. Additionally, Intelliseek can serve up the result pages with the look and feel of a partner's site and brand. Products can also be licensed as server software for enterprise use. Businesses interested in partnering with Intelliseek to provide Web Search or Vertical Search to their site visitors should visit info.intelliseek.com/partners/partners.htm for details. Pricing varies.

Users can search the Web for free with Intelliseek Web Search by visiting www.intelliseek.com. ProFusion.com users will note that www.intelliseek.com and www.profusion.com have been integrated.

About Intelliseek

Intelliseek is a privately held Internet company based in Cincinnati, Ohio and San Francisco, California. Intelliseek is a industry leading provider of Infrastructure for Intelligent Portals. Company's award-winning solutions include both Web server based services as well as advanced, downloadable client solutions such as the BullsEye product line.

All Intelliseek products are built on unique, Intelligent Agent technology that helps Internet users find and manage targeted news, shopping and research online. Intelliseek offers these solutions to medium to large e-businesses who want to differentiate their Web presence as well as to fortune 1000 corporations. Intelliseek has over 75 co-branding business partners who distribute Intelliseek technology to their end users and over 1 million unique monthly users visit Intelliseek properties. Intelliseek solutions help online companies extend their brand, earn advertising revenue, and increase their site traffic and user loyalty by offering a richer user experience. Enterprises license IntelliSeek solutions for increasing their Web productivity through applications ranging from high-end research to competitive and consumer intelligence. Intelliseek can be reached by visiting www.intelliseek.com or by e-mailing info@intelliseek.com.

Contact Intelliseek, Kelly Deters Baker, 513-672-5408, kbaker@intelliseek.com.