Boston, MA - March 28, 2005 - Ziggs, the fast-growing search platform for finding people in business online, announced today that the Ziggs Index of Professionals has been selected by InfoCommerce Group Inc. – a leading provider of consulting and research to publishers of commercial databases – as a 2005 InfoCommerce Model of Excellence.

Ziggs offers a search platform for professionals for finding people in business online. By providing an Index dedicated to up-to-date businesspeople profiles, Ziggs lets you search across more than 2.25 million professional profiles from more than 45,000 companies, and find the most accurate information on the people you seek, from a single source on the Web. Ziggs also offers easy-to-use profile management tools for creating your own online profile in minutes, giving you instant visibility in the Ziggs Index of Professionals. Ziggs lets you house and manage your professional profile – your online brand – at Ziggs.com, without the typical cost and hassle associated with web development. And Ziggs lets you display your profile with premium visibility across the Internet, giving your name leading listing placement in search results in major search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask Jeeves, and more.

InfoCommerce Models of Excellence are database products selected by InfoCommerce Group throughout the year. According to Russell Perkins, president of InfoCommerce Group, the winning products help show the commercial database publishing industry how to think in new and creative ways about how data is sourced, structured and delivered.

“Ziggs represents an ambitious and innovative move to organize individual profile information on the Web,” said Russell Perkins, CEO, InfoCommerce Group. “By creating what is in effect a specialized search engine strictly focused on locating information about individuals, Ziggs is a great example of the opportunities in specialized and vertical search. General search engines can’t do all things equally well. Further, because Ziggs has intelligently opted to limit itself to information that individuals voluntarily provide, it offers a great amount of valuable information with none of the privacy issues that have been so much in the news lately.”

“Ziggs is honored to be recognized by the InfoCommerce Group as a Model of Excellence winner,” said Tim DeMello, CEO and founder, Ziggs. “Ziggs strives to set a new standard of excellence for people search on the Internet by allowing users to search against professional profiles with mutually agreed upon content. This enables delivery of the most up-to-date search information on professionals while simultaneously honoring their privacy.”

The InfoCommerce Models of Excellence list includes products produced by both online publishers and old line print-based publishers. The online publishers have the clean slate advantage, allowing them to design a product without having to accommodate an existing base of business. The print-based publishers have to innovate to preserve their core value proposition.

Select InfoCommerce Models of Excellence products will be showcased at the annual InfoCommerce 2005 Conference. This year’s conference is November 6 - 8 in Philadelphia.