SEARCH123 NAMES TONY WINDERS VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (May 23, 2002) - Search123, a leading performance-based search engine technology company, announced today that Tony Winders has joined its management team as vice president of marketing.

Prior to joining Search123, Winders was president of iAgency, one of the world's first online marketing services agencies, which he co-founded in 1995. As a pioneer of several Internet marketing practices, he was responsible for devising innovative campaigns for Coca-Cola, DIRECTV, eToys, F/X Networks, NBC, Paramount, Qualcomm, SegaSoft, Symantec, Universal, Warner Bros., and several other technology, media and entertainment clients.

"Tony is both a strategic thinker and a hands-on marketing professional," said James Beriker, CEO, Search123. "He knows the online marketing space intimately, and is ideally equipped to articulate the competitive advantages of our pay-per-click technology to our target market segments and the industry as a whole."

In his capacity as vice president of marketing, Winders will oversee Search123's marketing strategy and implementation as it expands its presence among advertisers and distribution partners throughout the Internet industry.

About Search123

Launched in October 2000 and based in Westlake Village, Calif., Search123 (www.search123.com) is a performance-based, pay-per-click search engine in which advertisers bid for priority placement on search result pages and pay only when users click on a listing. By creating revenue-sharing relationships with its distribution partners, Search123 drives highly targeted consumer traffic to its merchant advertisers. Search123 is committed to delivering results to its advertisers and distribution partners, and to using technology to improve the performance and scalability of the paid search listings segment of the online marketing industry.