WebFeat achieves major milestones, strong results in 2003

Provider reaffirms leadership with 50 percent sales growth, market dominance

Old Brookville, N.Y., March 25, 2004 - WebFeat, providers of WebFeat Prism, the federated search solution for public, academic, government, and corporate libraries, announced that 2003 was the most successful year to date for the company founded in 1998 by CEO Todd Miller. Said Miller, "I attribute our success to WebFeats ability to make good on its promise of delivering a true federated search engine to our library clients, capable of searching all of their databases, not just a select few."

The company achieved four major milestones in 2003:

• WebFeat Prism has now been installed in over 1,000 public, educational, corporate and government libraries
• WebFeat Prism now provides federated searching to over half of the 20 largest public libraries in the United States
• WebFeat sales grew by more than 50 percent in 2003 compared to the previous year
• A new partner, TLC, joined WebFeat, switching from its former federated search vendor.

• Major public libraries including Boston Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, Miami-Dade Public Library, Toledo-Lucas Public Library, Pasadena-Glendale Public Library, the Ohio Public Library Information Network, and Oregon State Library
• Government libraries at NASA and the Air Force Institute of Technology
• Academic libraries at the University of Pittsburgh and Florida State University Medical School

In December 2003, WebFeat also announced major product enhancements, including support for Section 508 web standards, the Unicode standard, and the OpenURL standard.

"We've achieved this success because we share the same core mission with the libraries we serve," added Miller. "Make information accessible and you make it more valuable to users. WebFeat Prism is the only comprehensive federated search engine available today. Also, because we host it as a service, we eliminate the hassles of maintaining the system and keeping up with the hundreds of database updates that occur every year."

"We encourage our prospective customers not to take our word for it," said Miller. "Some extraordinary claims have been made about federated searching, so before we sell, we encourage prospective customers to put WebFeat to the test against other products claiming to be federated search engines. We think it just makes good sense to take a product for a test drive before you buy it."

Concluded Miller, "Our number one goal for 2004 is to continue to provide the only true federated searching for public, academic, government, and corporate libraries everywhere. We anticipate even stronger results in the year ahead."

About WebFeat
WebFeat (US patent #6,807,539) is the developer of the WebFeat Prism, used by over 1,500 leading public, academic, government and Global 1000 libraries and information centers—including over half of the top 20 largest U.S. public libraries and one out of every 10 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions.

WebFeat’s latest release, WebFeat 3, offers a suite of next-generation metasearch tools, the SMART™ COUNTER-compliant usage tracker, and MyWebFeat™ personalized metasearch system. Originally founded in 1992 as an information technology consultancy, WebFeat has earned industry recognition from leading organizations such as the Gartner Group and Library Journal. Learn more about WebFeat at www.webfeat.org.