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GuruNet Marks Answers.com Traffic Growth Queries Grow Tenfold in 8 Weeks WESLEY HILLS, New York, March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GuruNet Corporation (AMEX:GRU) announced growth in traffic for its newly-launched flagship site, Answers.com. Queries to its combined GuruNet and Answers.com services grew steadily to well over one million queries per day, representing an increase of over 1000% since it announced its Answers.com product and ad-driven business model on January 2, 2005. "Our unaudited, internal metrics for the sites' traffic, unique users, and query count are quite encouraging," stated Bob Rosenschein, Founder and CEO. "They indicate more rapid growth than we had expected in such a short time. The growth has been bolstered by optimizing Answers.com pages to rank more prominently on search engines, as well as other traffic-driving strategies. Our metrics indicate that organic traffic - not driven by a single source - accounts for the lion's share of our direct traffic today." GuruNet is currently recruiting a senior business development executive to help lead its growth strategy. The company has also recently added servers to accommodate its increased traffic and uses a scalable server infrastructure to enable additional hardware as required. In mid-January, the company began featuring ads and receiving a revenue share from a single ad-vendor and recently added other suppliers. "We are testing ads from multiple suppliers for an optimal mix of inventory, relevance and revenue," explained Rosenschein. "While we are pleased with the growth in traffic, monetization is still at an early stage, and we will be focusing on optimizing our results over the coming months." "We expect to share more information when we report our Q4 earnings on or around March 15," added Rosenschein. "As the Q4 report relates mainly to our previous revenue model of selling subscriptions, we plan to supplement the earnings data with an element of Q1 trends and additional metrics." Agenda and logistical details for the Q4 earnings call will be forthcoming. About GuruNet GuruNet Corporation (AMEX:GRU) operates Answers.com, a leading reference engine (http://www.answers.com/). Founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein, GuruNet Corporation provides patented technology and software tools to access concise information on demand. For additional information, visit http://www.gurunet.com/. Cautionary Statement Some of the statements included in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Important factors may cause our actual results to differ materially, including our inability to increase the number of persons who use our products and the number of partners who will generate increase traffic to our sites, and other risk factors identified from time to time in our SEC reports, including, but not limited to, the registration statement on Form SB-2 filed in connection with our initial public offering in October 2004. Any forward-looking statements set forth in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release. We do not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof. This press release and prior releases are available at http://www.gurunet.com/. The information in GuruNet's website is not incorporated by reference into this press release and is included as an inactive textual reference only. GuruNet Contact: Jay Bailey Director of Communications +1-866-576-0352 GuruNet Investor Relations: BPC Financial Marketing John Baldissera +1-800-368-1217 DATASOURCE: GuruNet Corporation CONTACT: GuruNet Contact: , Jay Bailey, Director of Communications, +1-866-576-0352; GuruNet Investor Relations: BPC Financial Marketing, John Baldissera, +1-800-368-1217

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