Boston, MA - May 2, 2005 - Ziggs, the fast-growing search platform for finding people in business online that launched in October 2004, today announced it has introduced enhancements for its people search engine and its professional Profile Manager service. As Ziggs continuously improves its product to best serve its rapidly growing customer base, the search engine has been upgraded to significantly increase its speed for delivering results. Search queries now yield results faster, enabling users to search and find more professionals at Ziggs with ease.

In addition, Ziggs now offers customers the ability to create and host their online profile at Ziggs at no cost as part of the company’s on-going effort to support its free and open search model. Now creating, listing and hosting a profile in the Ziggs Index is completely free and will remain so indefinitely. Any existing customer who has already listed or created a professional profile with Ziggs can continue to list and update their profile on a frequent basis at no cost. Ziggs’ Search Engine Placement service, which enables customers to prominently display their name with a link to their profile across all major search engines, continues to be offered at a flat fee of $50 per year.

“Ziggs is dedicated to serving our customer base of professionals who wish to search and network with other professionals. We continue to offer them the ability to be found easily with a professional online image that they control, rather than relying on the random results that a search for their name on the major search engines may yield,” said Tim DeMello, chief executive officer and founder of Ziggs. “Our search platform has always been an open search platform, free to search in, free to build networking contacts, and is now also free to be listed in.”

Ziggs was recently honored for its unique search platform with a 2005 InfoCommerce Model of Excellence, by InfoCommerce Group Inc., a leading provider of consulting and research to publishers of commercial databases.

“Ziggs represents an 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.”

Due to their rapid growth, Ziggs also recently moved to a larger office space in Boston’s Back Bay. Ziggs is now located at 420 Boylston Street in Boston in a professional space with twice the square footage of their previous office location.

Ziggs’ customer base continues to grow, ranging from realtors, lawyers and brokers, to insurance agents, finance professionals and technologists, just to name a few. Customers include Fortune 500 companies, professional services firms and SOHO professionals. Ziggs serves corporate customers by offering a suite of services that enable companies to better market and manage the online presence of their professionals across the Web.


The Ziggs Experience
Visitors to Ziggs.com can search for professionals by name, company, industry, location, service or profession, thanks to Ziggs’ keyword search ability across more than 250 million keywords. Ziggs’ technology stores the full text of each profile enabling customers to conduct comprehensive keyword searches against the entire Index. Ziggs believes that every profile in the Ziggs Index is accurate, professional, and timely, enabling the searcher to successfully find the most current and concise information on professionals in the Index. The Ziggs Search Platform is an open environment available for use by everyone, free of charge, at www.Ziggs.com. People wanting an online profile in Ziggs can join the 2 million profiles already in the Ziggs Index for free. For people who want to give their online profile additional visibility, Ziggs Search Engine Placement Service gives their profile top placement in search results for their name with all major search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask Jeeves and more. Ziggs Search Engine Placement Service is available for a flat $50 annual fee.