Intelliseek & Vinimaya Provide B2B Comparison Shopping

Intelliseek, one of the industry's leading providers of Infrastructure for Intelligent Portals and Vinimaya, a leading infomediary in the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce area, announce the launch of Vinimaya's ViniShopper, the industry's first comprehensive business-to-business (B2B) shopping service. ViniShopper empowers corporate purchasing and operations managers with a means of performing simultaneous comparison-shopping at multiple B2B eMarketplaces.

The ViniShopper online service combines Vinimaya's B2B expertise and technology with Intelliseek's Vertical Search, offering real-time product specifications, sources, pricing and availability information for both direct and indirect material procurement. This covers every major vertical segment including chemicals, medical supplies, MRO, office supplies, computers, electronics, industrial and laboratory supplies. ViniShopper's powerful intelligent agents can search for a product using simple keywords. The results can be further refined based on product specifications or sorted by price or preferred vendors. For the B2B buyer, hours devoted to searching and comparing product information can be dramatically reduced by having useful and accurate information within easy reach, effectively reducing purchase time and costs through easy comparisons.

ViniShopper can be found at www.vinimaya.com/shopper.html. The service is currently being offered free of charge to users for a limited time.

"We at Vinimaya are driven with only one goal in mind -- to simplify information in the B2B space, making confusing information easy to understand, navigate and manage for buyers, sellers and intermediaries. This is the key to realizing the enormous promise of e-business," said Dr. Somesh Nigam, CEO of Vinimaya Inc. "Moreover, this agreement is significant as a result of the synergy between Vinimaya's expertise in B2B content and Intelliseek's proven Intelligent Agent technology. ViniShopper will save significant time, effort and money for buyers worldwide by helping them make informed procurement decisions."

Intelliseek Vertical Search is ideal for specialized sites, such as vertical portals, business-to-business exchanges and affinity or community sites, to distinguish them from the competition. Intelliseek provides cutting edge search technology to Internet business sites like Vinimaya based on agent technology delivering relevant and useful information every time. In addition, Intelliseek can uniquely tailor these results by adding new sources, or even creating new categories thus enabling business partners such as Vinimaya to offer the most comprehensive search capabilities to their online users and keeping the users on their Website.

"Up to now, there exists only disparate shopping comparison services for the B2C space. We are proud to offer the industry's first and most comprehensive B2B shopping comparison tool, where the buyers are serious and the dollars at stake are huge," said Mahendra Vora, Intelliseek president and CEO. "Vinimaya had shown a very strong commitment to its users by providing Vertical Search in its ViniShopper service, enticing them to continue coming back for the relevant information they truly need from a single site using our industry's leading Vertical Search Agent technology."

About Vinimaya

Vinimaya Inc is an infomediary in the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce area. Through it products and services, Vinimaya plans to enable buyers, sellers and intermediaries to participate in the eBusiness economy by making the cluttered B2B space easy to understand, navigate and manage. Vinimaya's content-rich directories contain extensive information to assist businesses in making informed procurement choices. Intelligent agents developed by Vinimaya allow B2B comparison-shopping from numerous sources at the click of a button. Vinimaya's e-commerce platform manages seamless integration of communication and commerce with multiple e-marketplaces. Vinimaya is located in Tarrytown, NY, and can be contacted by phone at 914-524-0700 or via the Internet at www.vinimaya.com.

About Intelliseek

Intelliseek is a privately held Internet company based in Cincinnati, Ohio and San Francisco, California. Intelliseek is the industry's leading provider of Internet Infrastructure for Intelligent Portals. Their award-winning solutions include both Web server based solutions such as ProFusion and advanced, downloadable 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 small businesses as well as to large corporations who want to differentiate their Web presence. Intelliseek has over 70 co-branding business partners who distribute Intelliseek technology to their end users and over 1 million unique monthly users visit Intelliseek properties. Their solutions help companies extend their brand, earn advertising revenue, and increase their site traffic and user loyalty by offering a richer user experience.

Contact Intelliseek, Kimberly Harris, 513-672-5460, kbaker@intelliseek.com or Vinimaya, Somesh Nigam, 914-524-0700, scnigam@vinimaya.com.