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Vendio™ Enhances Dealio™ Comparison Shopping Toolbar

Most Intuitive Shopping Utility for the Web Extends Coverage and Unique Features, Now Provides Most Comprehensive Online Price Comparisons


SAN MATEO, Calif. June 6, 2006 — Vendio™, Services,the leading independent provider of services that empower merchants to reach consumers and manage online transactions, today announced the immediate availability of Dealio™ version 1.4, the innovative and intuitive shopping toolbar (www.dealio.com). Version 1.4 enhances Dealio's novel automated search functionality to cover virtually all product categories, including apparel, home & garden, computers, toys, jewelry, and much more. In addition, Dealio now helps consumers automatically find great deals while they search on more top sites that include a broader range of products. These new sites include Barnes and Noble, Froogle and Netflix, further ensuring that Dealio users will be alerted to the best deals available for literally any online purchase.

Automated searches save consumers' time by simplifying comparison shopping. When a user views a specific product page at an online store, price comparison site, or manufacturer site, Dealio automatically detects the product, performs a search, and alerts the user to the lowest prices on the Web for that item. Clicking on the toolbar alert opens a sidebar next to the existing browser window, eliminating the need for another browser. The sidebar provides consumers with the item's price at alternative sites, complete with tax and shipping costs to their ZIP code, ensuring consumers get the best deals available.

"Version 1.4 takes a dramatic step forward toward our ambitious vision for the Dealio™ Toolbar. Dealio integrates the most comprehensive, intuitive, and effective comparison shopping experience right into your browser," said Rodrigo Sales, co-founder and CEO of Vendio. "With Dealio, you can be certain you are getting a great deal on any product you buy, without being forced to spend valuable time hunting down the best prices."

Enhancements found in the new version of the Dealio Toolbar include:
  • Improved Automated Search: Dealio's automated search now works across all product categories and on several of the biggest online marketplaces like Amazon.com and eBay, price comparison sites like Shopping.com and Pricegrabber.com, product review sites like CNET and Epinions, and manufacturer sites like Canon and Panasonic.
  • Automatic Keyword Pre-fill on Manual Searches: Dealio intelligently detects when you do a product-related search on search engines like Google or Yahoo, and pre-fills your search terms in the Dealio toolbar. Simply hit the Search Dealio button when it flashes to search Dealio using the same terms.
  • Most Comprehensive Search Results: Whether via automatic or manual search, Dealio now scours more than 100,000 online merchants' product inventories covering well over 30 million different products, in under a second.
  • Improved Search Relevancy: Dealio's search algorithms are now more efficient and more targeted, delivering only results for the product or phrase searched for. Other shopping search engines include dozens or hundreds of peripherally related items such as batteries, carrying cases, and other accessories in product searches, which can be both misleading and confusing. Dealio dramatically reduces the frequency of such "tangential" search results. In addition, Dealio now provides more links to refine or expand searches to help you find the greatest deals online.

The Dealio Toolbar is free to consumers and quick and easy to install and use. After downloading and integrating the Dealio Toolbar into your browser, the user sees only the Dealio logo added to the navigation bar near the top of the their browser during normal browsing, unlike other toolbars that require additional space. Dealio can perform automated searches, or users can search manually by keyword. The Dealio Toolbar is not adware or spyware - it does not record consumers' individual Web movements or adversely affect system or Internet connection performance, and it does not generate pop-ups or any other advertising on a consumer's computer. Dealio is free to consumers and available for download at www.dealio.com.

About Vendio
Vendio is a leader in eCommerce, providing hosted software-as-a-service (SAAS) solutions for merchants. Vendio's consumer offering, Dealio, is one of the top Web 2.0 shopping sites providing coupons, comparison shopping, and user generated deals. Dealio is a direct descendant of Auctionwatch, Vendio’s pioneering comparison shopping search engine for auctions created in 1998. Today Dealio provides some of the best bargains and product depth of any shopping site by leveraging the thousands of stores hosted by Vendio.

Vendio was founded in January, 1999 and is the independent leader in multi-channel online sales. Each year, tens of thousands of merchants use Vendio's sales management and merchandising services to sell over $1.6 billion of merchandise on both their own branded stores as well as the Web's leading marketplaces such as eBay. Vendio is a profitable Silicon Valley startup which acquired the assets of long time competitor Andale in 2006. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in Bucharest, Romania and Bangalore, India. Vendio is backed by Lighthouse Capital Partners and MVC Capital.
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