InfoSpace Adds Google's Award-Winning Search Results to its Industry-Leading Meta-Search Technology

Google's search results and text-based advertising listings to be delivered through InfoSpace's network of meta-search properties and affiliates; first implementation available to users today at MetaCrawler

BELLEVUE, Wash. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Sept. 4, 2002) - InfoSpace, Inc. (Nasdaq: INSP) and Google Inc. today announced an agreement to bring Google's award-winning search technology to InfoSpace's network of Web search properties and affiliates, which include Excite (www.excite.com), Dogpile (www.dogpile.com), WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com), MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com) and InfoSpace (www.infospace.com), among others.

In addition to providing Google's highly relevant search results from billions of Web pages, InfoSpace's meta-search technology, which searches multiple search engines at once, will also include results from the Google Sponsored Links Program, a paid advertising service that complements Google's objective search results with targeted text-based advertising listings.

"Google is a global leader in search and search monetization," said York Baur, InfoSpace executive vice president, Wireline and Broadband. "The addition of Google's search services is yet another example of our commitment to delivering the most comprehensive and relevant results to our users. InfoSpace's next generation meta-search product and results improved significantly with today's announcement."

"InfoSpace and its meta-search users can now access information through Google's comprehensive search results and carefully targeted ads," said Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. "This agreement represents further distribution of our advanced search technology, while exposing our growing base of advertisers to millions of new users."

InfoSpace's next generation meta-search technology highlights the strengths of many of the Web's major search properties and is designed to identify the intent of each user's search. Google's Web search results and paid listings will play important roles in this ongoing effort to deliver a blended mix of the most relevant commercial and non-commercial results for a given search.

The re-launch of MetaCrawler, also announced today, represents the first integration of Google's services into InfoSpace's network of Web search properties. Today's MetaCrawler re-launch press release can be viewed at http://www.businesswire.com/insp/index-ep.shtml. Google results are planned to be available throughout InfoSpace's properties and affiliates by the end of this month.

About InfoSpace, Inc.
InfoSpace, Inc. (Nasdaq: INSP) provides wireless and Internet software and application services. The Company develops software technologies that enable customers to efficiently offer a broad array of network-based services under their own brand to any device. InfoSpace corporate information can be found at www.infospaceinc.com.

YAHOO! REPURCHASES SHARES IN PRIVATE TRANSACTION

Sunnyvale, CA -- Aug. 29, 2002 -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has repurchased 11,074,197 shares of its common stock from SOFTBANK America, Inc. for approximately $100 million.
"This transaction demonstrates Yahoo!'s belief that we are well-positioned to deliver long-term growth and profitability by executing against our business plan, and is consistent with our commitment to enhance long-term shareholder value," said Susan Decker, chief financial officer, Yahoo! Inc.

"We continue to have great confidence in the future strategic direction and the growth prospects for Yahoo!," said Ron Fisher, vice chairman of SOFTBANK Holdings, Inc. "SOFTBANK's sales are consistent with our intention to diversify our holdings through occasional sales of stock in our portfolio companies and our need to fund our broadband operations in Japan."

Yesterday, SOFTBANK America, Inc. also sold 30 million shares of Yahoo! common stock through a combination of private and open market transactions. SOFTBANK's aggregate ownership of Yahoo! now stands at approximately seven percent of the issued and outstanding common stock.

AWARD-WINNING SCIENTIFIC SEARCH ENGINE, SCIRUS, AND FAST DELIVER IMPROVED SEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR RESEARCHERS

OSLO, Norway, 2002-08-21 - Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information, announced in conjunction with Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time filtering technologies, a new release of Scirus, the Web search engine dedicated to science. The new version improves the user experience with more subject-specific content and features like expanded information types, dynamic teasers which highlight the search terms within the search result list, and improved relevance ranking.

“As we continue to examine ways to improve the search service for scientists, we have executed a study amongst the target audience to find out what they find most important for a dedicated science search engine” says Femke Markus, Product Manager of Scirus, “I am therefore very happy to announce that this new release brings us improved searching for scientists, based on their feedback”.

The index now contains over 107 million science specific pages, with new full-text additions like NASA reports, CogPrints pre- and postprints, and preprints from the Chemistry and Mathematics Preprint Servers. Scirus now offers over 17 million proprietary records that cannot be found using generic search engines.

The new version of Scirus contains significant enhancements aimed at assisting users with finding the most relevant results. These features have been developed using the latest search technology provided by FAST. FAST has further improved the ranking and relevance of the results by implementing “intelligent query rewrites”, which automatically attempts to understand the intention of the user and enables more intelligent searching by rewriting the queries. Query transformations performed on the searchers’ behalf include the addition of quotes around common phrases that are detected from the Scirus phrase dictionary and the removal of non-essential search words in the query such as “what is” and “where can I find information about”. Searchers may also run their queries without re-writing if they wish. Other improvements that assist the searcher in finding more relevant results include improved ranking technology and dynamic teasers that highlight the search keyword in context on the result page.

“FAST is pleased to work with Elsevier Science to help provide their users with the most comprehensive scientific information portal online,” said Dr. John M. Lervik, chief executive officer of FAST. “We are committed to helping Scirus users find the information they desire, and look forward to future collaborations that will continue to provide the best search experience possible.”

More refined searching will be facilitated by the addition of new the Information Types “Company Homepages” and “Preprints”. This will allow the searcher to quickly find science-related company and product information, as well as papers that are available before the peer-review process has been completed.

As part of this new release, Scirus now includes a news feed with the latest science headlines provided by the Lexis Nexis Web Publisher News Database. This service provides the Scirus user with access to rich, reliable news that is continuously updated. It provides access to prominent newspapers, trade journals, reference directories, legal and legislative sources, newswires and transcripts from over 2,700 sources around the world.

About Scirus

Scirus is the most comprehensive science specific search engine available on the Internet. Driven by the latest in search engine technology, it covers more than 100 million science-related pages and can pinpoint precise scientific information that other search engines can not reach, including pdf files and peer-reviewed articles. It was launched in April 2001 by Elsevier Science (www.elsevier.com), the world’s largest scientific, technical and medical information provider, and is part of the ScienceDirect® family of products.

Contact:
Sandra de Gelder, Elsevier Science
+31 (0)20 485 3851, s.gelder@elsevier.com

Yahoo! Messenger Launches Super Webcam Offering a Faster, Higher-Quality Webcam Experience

Yahoo! Messenger Surpasses 6 Million Webcam Users Milestone and Sends Nearly 13 Billion Messages in July

Sunnyvale, CA -- Aug. 15, 2002 -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced the release of the newest version of its popular Yahoo!® Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) service. Continuing to drive innovation as the first instant messaging service to offer Webcam functionality, Yahoo! Messenger now introduces Yahoo! Messenger Super Webcam, a faster, higher-quality Webcam experience. Yahoo! Messenger Webcam usage has grown significantly since its introduction last June, reaching a six million Webcam users milestone in July. Yahoo! Messenger is also the first to offer animated emoticons leveraging the Yahoo! Messenger IMVironments(TM) patent-pending technology.

Yahoo! Messenger Super Webcam now offers people the ability to communicate face-to-face in real-time video with up to 20 frames-per-second. Yahoo! Messenger Super Webcam offers higher resolution, the ability to zoom, higher frame rates and a choice of two window sizes -- small (160x120 pixels) and large (320x240 pixels), making it easier to see friends and family up close. Millions of Yahoo! Messenger users broadcast or view friends and family through Webcams each month.

"Whether it's maintaining a long-distance relationship, or introducing a new baby to grandparents across the country, more and more people are discovering this new dimension of personalization. Super Webcam makes the experience bigger, better and faster than ever before, making Yahoo! Messenger even more essential to people's lives," said Lisa Pollock, director of messaging products at Yahoo!. "By providing enhanced features like Super Webcam and animated emoticons, Yahoo! Messenger is leveraging its core strengths to provider deeper, more valuable services to consumers."

Leading the Industry
Yahoo! Messenger continues to lead the way in the instant messaging industry with users sending nearly 13 billion messages in July 2002,* increasing 139 percent over the past year. According to the latest data released by Media Metrix Inc. Yahoo! Messenger is the fastest growing instant messaging service, increasing 19 percent in total unique visitors over the past six months.** Yahoo! Messenger has the highest average minutes spent, exceeding AIM and MSN.***

"By leading the industry in providing even better advanced instant messaging features like Yahoo! Messenger Super Webcam, we plan on continuing our strong growth in the instant messaging market," added Pollock. "We're thrilled to be in the top spot as the fastest growing instant messaging service in the industry."

Something to Smile About
Yahoo! Messenger IMVironments patent-pending technology enables people to send animated emoticons directly within the instant messaging window and as part of their conversations. Only available on Yahoo! Messenger, people now have a new and even broader way to express their emotions through actions like rolling eyes, raising an eyebrow, applauding hands, among many others. A total of 29 animated emoticons are now available on Yahoo! Messenger.

"One-Click" IMVironments(TM)
Yahoo! continues to offer shared interactive instant messaging environments through Yahoo! Messenger IMVironments -- themed backgrounds with conversations that appear directly in the instant messaging window, shared virally among friends. Innovative IMVironments such as Doodle, Chess, Hearts Falling, Snowflake, among many others make sending messages fun. The new "one-click" IMVironments feature makes it easier for people to see all available IMVironments from top flight companies including United Media, Sanrio, Verizon Wireless, Sony, Dodge and Kelloggs.

About Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger is one of the most popular instant messaging, information, communications, and notification services on the Internet. Yahoo! Messenger lets people send free instant text and voice messages, as well as make affordable PC-to-phone calls anywhere in the world. Yahoo! Messenger was the first IM provider to offer Webcam functionality, enabling face-to-face communications. It is fully integrated with Yahoo!'s suite of communications services to provide up-to-the-minute alerts on stocks and sports scores, notification of important meetings on Yahoo! Calendar, access to Yahoo! Chat rooms, Yahoo! Games and much more. Yahoo! Messenger is accessible from a personal computer and through mobile phones and pagers.

YAHOO! ANNOUNCES EXPANDED DYNAMIC CONTENT SERVICES FOR ENTERPRISE PORTALS AND KNOWLEDGE WORKERS -- DEBUTS MY YAHOO! ENTERPRISE EDITION 5.0

Premier Portal Software Vendors Endorse New My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition; Company Launches First Enterprise-Focused Ad Campaign to Support Enhanced Offering

Sunnyvale, CA -- Aug. 14, 2002 -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition 5.0, which includes enhanced features to provide more comprehensive access to business critical information and the opportunity for customers to purchase new premium industry-focused content packages. The new offering is already supported by leading portal software vendors including BEA Systems (Nasdaq:BEAS - News), SAP AG, Sun Microsystems, and TIBCO Software. The new edition represents another step in Yahoo!'s continuing efforts to simplify Internet information management for corporate portal customers.
More than 70 percent of business users already visit Yahoo! each month from the workplace. Leveraging this unprecedented reach and familiarity among business users, My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition aggregates information from over 2,000 sources and delivers more than 100 personalized modules that cater to the unique needs of both the business user and the portal administrator. My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition 5.0 customers will also be offered the opportunity to purchase premium packages that comprise hundreds of business content sources, vertical industry content, new features, and premium modules not currently available via the consumer-oriented My Yahoo! service.

Yahoo! is supporting this new offering through its first enterprise-focused advertising campaign targeting knowledge workers and chief information officers. The advertising buy is scheduled to begin August 19, 2002 with print placements in The Wall Street Journal and PC World, and through over 100 million targeted online impressions across the Yahoo! network and The Wall Street Journal Online. An online demonstration of My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition is available at http://enterprise.yahoo.com/testdrive.

"Since the introduction of My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition, our goal has been to leverage the popular aggregation and personalization capabilities of the My Yahoo! platform to help simplify the information gathering process of our business customers," said Jim Fanella, senior vice president, Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions. "With new premium content sources, advanced features, and news tracking capability, we are providing a more comprehensive digital information environment to help knowledge workers improve productivity, speed decision making, and ease the burden of data gathering and articulation."

Addressing the Needs of Enterprise Portal Users
Today's enterprise portal users are inundated with a glut of business information from internal and external sources. Struggling to synthesize disparate data, employees lose valuable time and opportunities to make effective decisions. While corporate portals promise relief from the overflow of unorganized information, administrators face the challenge of finding and effectively blending external Web content and applications together with internal information and enterprise applications to drive widespread adoption.

My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition 5.0 offers an unparalleled ability to personalize the portal experience with dynamic content that supports business interactions, provides real-time aggregation from premium news sources, and offers "content-in-context" to eliminate the knowledge worker's quest for the Internet information they need to make informed business decisions.

Delivering Increased Value Through Dynamic Content Services
To help corporate customers tailor content solutions to their business needs, Yahoo!'s premium add-on packages for My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition will include:

Business Research Package -- adds hundreds of premium business content sources and specialized modules for tracking company and industry news, profiles and performance by keyword, stock symbol, and industry segments.

Industry Packages -- each package adds hundreds of premium business content sources for targeted vertical industries. Packages will be available for Banking, Finance, Government, Education, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Computers and Telecommunications.

In addition, portal administrators can use My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition 5.0 to embed "content in-context" in their portals and portal-based business applications. The end result will be content modules that dynamically refresh based on changes to surrounding modules and applications. For example, a sales executive looking up prospects in a CRM application could automatically be given news headlines, industry information, stock quotes and a company profile for the prospective company. Changing the prospect company would instantly refresh the surrounding in-context content modules to match the new prospect.

New My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition 5.0 Endorsed by Premier Portal Software Vendors
Leading portal software vendors agree that My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition 5.0 provides the most comprehensive personalized Internet information offering for corporate intranets and extranets. BEA, SAP AG, Sun Microsystems, and TIBCO will ship portal software products that are already integrated with the Yahoo! network to allow seamless, zero-cost delivery of the numerous My Yahoo Enterprise Edition content modules and premium add-on packages. Each of the vendors is showing support for the enhanced content offering through participation in the forthcoming advertising campaign.

"Enterprise portals connect knowledge workers to the structured and unstructured information required to drive business decisions and success," said Rob Perry, Senior Analyst at the Yankee Group. "With this offering, Yahoo! enables access to a broad base of valuable market information and the tools to put in the context of the business need at hand."

Availability and Online Demonstration
My Yahoo! Enterprise Edition 5.0 is planned to ship in Q4 2002. Those interested in learning more can view further information and launch an online demonstration at http://enterprise.yahoo.com/testdrive.