Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced the launch of the Yahoo! Small Business Resource Center, a new comprehensive online resource center designed to help entrepreneurs succeed by offering approximately 1,000 articles on key business issues around topics such as marketing, legal and human resources. As the leading provider of online business solutions for entrepreneurs, the Yahoo! Small Business Resource Center is further evidence of Yahoo!'s commitment to providing essential content and online services to small businesses.

Overture Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that it will be re-branded Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions and will bring together its sponsored search offerings and Yahoo!'s listings submit products under the new banner. Through Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions, advertisers of all sizes will enjoy convenient access to the industry's most comprehensive suite of search marketing and related products and services.

Google Inc. today announced the formal launch of Google Desktop Search, a free downloadable application which enables users to search for information on their own computers. Previously in beta, today's 1.0 release adds search over the full text of PDFs and the meta-information stored with music, image and video files. Additional enhancements include support for the Firefox and Netscape browsers, Thunderbird and Netscape email clients and new Chinese and Korean language interfaces.

Yahoo! Inc. a leading global Internet company, today announced the launch of the Yahoo! Search Developer Network (http://developer.yahoo.com) a new, one-stop resource that provides developers with access to Web service application programming interfaces (APIs) to Yahoo! Search products and Overture's (which will be re-branded Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions) long standing API programs. Additionally, the Yahoo! Search Developer Network provides application developers with sample code and tools to share ideas and expertise, as well as the ability to showcase applications written and distributed by developers.

Crystal Semantics, the leader of contextual Internet search solutions and developer of the world's first Sense Engine technology, has been granted Patent No. 6,847,972 effective January 5th 2005 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Already patented in the UK, this additional technology patent secures the core innovation of the Crystal Semantics' Sense Engine for the analysis of textual content and comparison with a pre-classified vocabulary to target the context of content.