SEATTLE, July 18, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- WhitePages.com, the leading provider of free online directory assistance services, today announced that Jingle Networks, Inc., operator of 1-800-FREE411, the nation's leading advertiser-supported directory assistance service, selected the company to power white pages lookups in the 'Search' section of their Web site at www.free411.com.
Visitors to Free411.com, the online version of the popular telephone directory assistance service, have access to more than 80 million U.S. residential listings by clicking the 'Search' tab on the Free411.com homepage and selecting the 'Person by Name' or 'By Phone Number' category.
"As the leader in the online people search category, WhitePages.com is the right solution to power the people search functionality of our Web site," said Lincoln Silver, vice president of Internet Marketing at Jingle Networks. "Our customers already know that 1-800-FREE411 provides a strong alternative to the high cost of dialing 411, and our partnership with WhitePages.com enables our customers to access new, accurate residential contact information through our Web site for free."
"We are excited to partner with companies that share our passion for innovation," said Max Bardon, president and CEO of WhitePages.com, Inc. "WhitePages.com has long been an advocate of free contact information and we are pleased to be providing our services to Free411.com customers."
1-800-FREE411 is America's largest advertiser-supported directory assistance service, and offers consumers a free alternative to the high cost of 411 service provided by traditional carriers. Launched in September 2005, Jingle's service is currently processing over 11 million calls per month from over three million unique consumers.
The strength of WhitePages.com's proprietary sites, WhitePages.com, 411.com, PhoneNumber.com and WhitePages.ca, coupled with an extensive list of more than 1,300 Internet partners, positions the company as the largest directory assistance site on the Internet. WhitePages.com properties receive more than 20 million unique visitors each month(a).
About WhitePages.com
WhitePages.com, Inc., a privately held company based in Seattle, provides online directory assistance services and is the largest provider of free online residential directory assistance in North America. The company's network of sites include WhitePages.com (www.whitepages.com), WhitePages.ca (www.whitepages.ca), 411.com (www.411.com), PhoneNumber.com (www.phonenumber.com) and its 1,300 partner sites including MSN, SuperPages.com, YellowPages.com and the Yellow Pages Group in Canada.
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About Jingle Networks
The 1-800-FREE411 service from Jingle Networks, Inc. revolutionizes the 411 (directory assistance) marketplace by offering consumers a FREE alternative to the high cost service provided by traditional carriers. 1-800-FREE411 is supported by national and local advertisers who use 1-800-FREE411 as both a branding and direct-response media channel to target messages to callers within the context of a normal-length 411 call. In addition, www.free411.com on the Internet provides consumers with an easy to use Web-based resource for telephone number lookups. For more information, visit: www.free411.com.
(a) U.S. and Canada