Search Engine Marketing Companies, Mamma.com and InfoSpace, Sign Agreement

Montreal, Canada - (via THE HOSTING NEWS) - August 10, 2005 - Mamma.com Inc., a leader in Internet search and online advertising, has announced an agreement with InfoSpace Inc. that will provide Mamma.com's search advertisers with distribution on all InfoSpace properties, including Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler and InfoSpace.com.

InfoSpace will also provide distributed search results to be placed on the Mamma.com search engine beginning August 1, 2005. In the terms of the deal, InfoSpace will supply search results from some of the leading search engines on the web.

The distribution of InfoSpace paid links on Mamma.com is expected to increase the number of paid clicks to InfoSpace's paid search distribution network and increase search revenues for both companies. Mamma.com's metasearch engine, www.mamma.com, has a unique audience of approximately 2.3 million users (Comscore Media Metrics May 2005).

Guy Faure, President and CEO of Mamma.com commented on the new partnership, ''Mamma.com and InfoSpace have had successful technology partnerships in the past, and we are looking forward to beginning a new type of partnership where we can create revenue and user satisfaction together. Providing both targeted paid search results to appropriately answer commercial searches and returning premier web search results from some of the top engines will generate value to our loyal users.''

Richard Pelly, InfoSpace's Vice President - Search Distribution Sales and Strategic Partnerships added, ''We are very excited to commence this agreement with Mamma.com. Mamma.com's metasearch engine provides a distinct distribution channel that will help us extend the reach of our distributed search solution.''

For further information on Mamma.com please visit: www.mamma.com.

To learn more about InfoSpace and their family of Internet properties please visit: www.infospace.com.

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