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infoUSA Adds Storefront Pictures and Geocodes of Millions of Businesses to Database

OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2004--infoUSA(R) (Nasdaq:IUSA), the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases and sales leads, today announced that it will be introducing the industry's first pictures of storefronts with corresponding longitude and latitude coordinates to its Business Database. Important applications for this data include business credit reports/applications, directory assistance, wireless navigation devices and insurance appraisals/underwriting.
Beginning August 1, 2004, storefront images from the company's pilot market in Omaha, Nebraska, will be added to the database. Additional markets scheduled for 2004 include Chicago, Denver, Miami, Minneapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City and New Orleans. The company will progressively rollout images of businesses in the top 100 MSA's and intends to enrich the database with over 6 million images by December, 2005. In addition to visual images, the embedded information will include latitude/longitude statistics for each location, and will be linked with all of the corresponding business data using infoUSA's proprietary compilation technology.

Vin Gupta, Chairman and CEO, infoUSA, commented, "For the first time in the history of the industry, we will be offering rich visual data that provides our clients with a 360 degree view of their customers and prospects. The banking and insurance industry, real estate industry and the navigational device market have been requesting this valuable photographic module for years. Due to the comprehensive scope of our database and leading edge technology, as well as our unique ability to control the entire compilation process, infoUSA is the only company that can guarantee that this enhanced data meets the highest standards for precision and accuracy."

About infoUSA

infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own a proprietary database of 250 million consumers and 14 million businesses under one roof. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites. Nearly 3 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500.

Contacts


infoUSA, Omaha
Vin Gupta, 402-596-8900
Fax: 402-339-0265
E-Mail: vin.gupta@infoUSA.com
or
Investor Relations:
Laurel Gupta, 402-593-4535
Fax: 402-339-0265
E-Mail: laurel.gupta@infousa.com

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