Judy's Book, Inc. (www.judysbook.com), the free online community for sharing local opinions, and Local.com, a leading local search engine owned by Interchange Corporation (Nasdaq:INCX), today announced an agreement to add Judy's Book reviews and local blogging capabilities to Local.com's fast-growing local search service. Beginning in April 2006, excerpts from the most recent consumer reviews written at Judy's Book will be integrated with Local.com search results for the entire U.S. In addition, Local.com customers will be encouraged to write reviews of the businesses they find on Local.com, using Judy's Book as the "reviews engine" for the site. These reviews will then be displayed at both Local.com and judysbook.com, allowing both companies to expand their reach and deliver an even higher-quality local search experience to their respective users. "Local.com is the fastest-growing local search destination on the Web, and Judy's Book is becoming the nation's leading site for local consumer reviews," said Andy Sack, CEO and co-founder of Judy's Book. "Together, we're making it easier than ever for people to find and choose the best local business in towns around the country, based on trustworthy recommendations from real people," said Sack. "Adding content from Judy's Book and providing an opportunity to write reviews will further enrich our users' search experience on Local.com," said Rob Luskey, director of strategic alliances for Interchange. "Our strategy is to drive repeat usage by providing deep, rich, value-added content to our consumers which ultimately enhances their ability to make more informed purchase and shopping decisions," said Luskey. About Judy's Book, Inc. Judy's Book, Inc., was founded in 2004 by internet entrepreneurs Andy Sack and Chris DeVore and is backed by Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners, Ackerley Partners and angel investors. Based in Seattle, Judy's Book was inspired by Judy Albert -- co-founder Andy Sack's mother-in-law -- a long-time Seattle resident whose "little green book" of favorite local businesses became a sought-after resource among her friends and family. Visit http://www.judysbook.com to search referrals from people near you, or sign up for a free membership to share your own local favorites. About Interchange Corporation Interchange Corporation (Nasdaq:INCX) owns Local.com (www.local.com), a leading local-search engine that has grown to over 8 million visitors per month and is powered by the company's proprietary Keyword DNA(TM) and local-web indexing technologies. The company serves local and national Internet, wireless and operator assisted local-search markets in the United States and Europe. Interchange generates revenue principally from paid-search advertising. The company recently launched a domain syndication network in the United States, and has also announced plans to launch Local.com in various markets during 2006. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, with European headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information on Interchange, please visit: www.interchangeusa.com. Forward-Looking Statements: All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this document regarding our anticipated financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of our management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this report, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "plans," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to Interchange or our management, identify forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to our management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, our ability to stabilize our national paid search advertising business, our ability to operate, grow and monetize our local search engine, Local.com, and incorporate our local-search technologies, market the Local.com domain as a destination for consumers seeking local-search results, grow our business by enhancing our local-search services, improve our filtering technologies expand our Advertiser and Distribution Networks, expand internationally, integrate the operations and effectively utilize the technology of Inspire, a Swedish Internet and wireless local-search technology company, which we recently acquired, integrate the operations and effectively utilize the technology of Inspire, develop our products and sales, marketing, finance and administrative functions and successfully integrate our expanded infrastructure, as well as our dependence on major advertisers, competitive factors and pricing pressures, changes in legal and regulatory requirements, and general economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. Our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as if the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.
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