org, and Zniff.

About FirstStop WebSearch:
FirstStop WebSearch is incredibly fast software that searches multiple
search engines and web sites simultaneously for a more comprehensive Internet
experience.

NBCSearch Hits 5 Billion Mark for Searches Per Month

"NBCSearch offers search engines and Web sites among the highest
percentage payouts as well as the highest per-click minimum in the industry,"
said Nathan Joseph, vice president of pay-per-click search operations of
Mainstream Advertising.

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FirstStopWebSearch.mainstreamadvertising. A "browse
by subject" option also allows for quick searching in academic areas
ranging from aerospace engineering to urban planning. These tools provide innovative and effective means
of content production and dissemination. Blackboard is headquartered in Washington,
D. Everywhere.

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, FirstStop WebSearch, LLC
announced today the addition of a Social Bookmarks search category within
FirstStop WebSearch (http://www.
With a single search, users can now obtain an aggregated list of search
results bookmarked by users of popular social bookmarking systems such as
LookSmart's Furl.FirstStopWebSearch.
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press@honigcompany. Actual results may
differ materially from those indicated by such forward -looking statements
as a result of various important factors, including the factors discussed
in the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K
filed on February 15, 2006 with the SEC.

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meta-search engine software product.

PRESS RELEASE Blackboard and Berkeley Electronic Press Announce ResearchNow Content Blackboard Building Block(TM)

com/extend/b2/), and is free to use.

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Social bookmarking systems, which have gained popularity over the past few
years , have brought a new approach to web searches."
Although social bookmarking systems are still very young, their
human-built indexes grow every day as more and more people become active
users .
(NASDAQ: BBBB) is a leading provider of enterprise software applications
and related services to the education industry.C.

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Blackboard

Educate.

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com. Relevant resources may be easily selected and
incorporated into the Blackboard Academic Suite. From the search
results , instructors can select specific materials and embed links to them
within their Blackboard course web site.

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To learn more
about our journals, institutional repositories, subject matter
repositories , working paper series, and editorial management software, we
invite you to explore our web site at www., with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

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They allow searches within
the part of the web visited by users of social bookmarking services and allow
Web surfers to store and quickly access all the interesting pages they have
found on the web from any computer. It runs on any Microsoft Windows desktop and works with as many
sources as selected by the user. Paid Per Click Search Engine Advertising Network Reaches Industry Milestone,
Serving Sponsored Links to 5 Billion Searches on Thousands of Search Engines
and Web Sites Every Month

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif."
NBCSearch was first established by Mainstream Advertising in 1998. Their integrated performance-based advertising and search marketing
services enable merchants to more efficiently market their products and
services across multiple online distribution channels, including search
engines, product shopping engines, directories and other selected Web
properties.
Blackboard Inc. "The
ResearchNow Content Building Block allows instructors to search the
ResearchNow network of high-quality scholarship and easily incorporate
these materials into their online classes.

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net , already have
several million web pages in their databases."

About The Berkeley Electronic Press

The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") produces tools to improve
scholarly communication .

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The Berkeley Electronic Press, as a member of the Blackboard Developer
Network(SM), has developed a Building Block to expose ResearchNow content
to Blackboard's worldwide community of 12 million learners and educators. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and
developments will cause the Company's views to change.

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To maximize the benefit of social bookmarks for web searchers and to
provide access to a larger number of bookmarked pages, FirstStop WebSearch
combines the most popular services into one meta-search category, which allows
users to query multiple social bookmarking systems all at once and receive an
aggregated list of search results. FirstStop WebSearch is available for download
at http://www. The ResearchNow Content Building Block is available for free
download from the Blackboard Building Blocks Catalog
(http://www.

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, Mainstream Advertising, a
leading Internet advertising and paid search marketing company, announced
today that its NBCSearch served paid listings to more than 5 billion searches
performed on thousands of their vertical search engines, Web sites properties
and affiliate networks during the month of February. More information is available at
http://www. More than 50 schools -- including the University
of California system, Boston College, Cornell, and the University of
Nebraska, as well as major universities in Europe and Australia -- use the
bepress platform for their institutional repositories.

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net, CiteULike.
The new search category will be pre-installed in all new downloads and
will be available via update for the existing users of FirstStop WebSearch . "With paid results fed to more than 5 billion
searches every month, the NBCSearch advertising network now ranks as one of
the overall top three providers of paid search listings. The ResearchNow Content
Building Block makes it possible for educators to search directly in
Blackboard for access to more than 85,000 journal articles, working papers,
institutional repository materials, theses and dissertations hosted within
ResearchNow, The Berkeley Electronic Press's innovative database of
scholarly information.
Instructors using the Blackboard Learning System can easily search
ResearchNow directly from within their Blackboard online course.

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Contact:
Product Information/Corporate Information
805-712-1510
http://www.prwebdirect.
NBCSearch provides paid search engine listings to more than 50,000
affiliated vertical search engines and targeted Web sites properties through
an extensive advertising network, enabling site operators to increase their
revenue from pay-per-performance listings and advertisers to connect with
online consumers.

Blackboard provides educational technology solutions used by more than
2,200 academic institutions and corporate and government agencies in the
United States and abroad, enabling millions of people to access educational
materials and resources at any time and from any location. "The ResearchNow Building Block will bring innovative
and topical content to the virtual classroom.

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The most popular systems, such as Furl.

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Software from FirstStop Web Search Adds Social Bookmarks Search Category

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. This
produces search results that are highly relevant and free from "spam.com .

NBCSearch distinguishes itself from other paid-listing advertising
networks by giving search engine and Web site operators 60 percent of the paid
listing amount it receives, with a minimum payment of ten cents per click. Founded in 1997, Blackboard
enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and
technology.

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This press release distributed by PRWEB ( http: //www. The company's NBCSearch advertising network feeds paid listings
to approximately 5 billion searches every month.

"The ResearchNow Content Building Block is a powerful example of how the
open Blackboard Building Blocks architecture enables a Networked Learning
Environment," said Matthew Pittinsky, Chairman of Blackboard."

"We are pleased to connect thousands of articles, working papers, and other
scholarly literature with millions of instructors and students via the
Blackboard Learning System," said Greg Tananbaum, President of The Berkeley
Electronic Press.

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Founded by academics in 1999, bepress has a portfolio of products and
services that reduces the costs of, and barriers to, access.

About Blackboard

Blackboard Inc. However, while the
Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point
in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so.

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com, a search engine for the
Spurl. The fact that people take time to bookmark
and annotate web pages is evidence of the quality of the indexed content.

Mainstream Advertising provides technology-based merchant services that
facilitate and drive growth in online transactions and connects merchants with
consumers who are searching for information, products and services on the
Internet.
(NASDAQ: BBBB) and The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) today announced
the launch of the ResearchNow Blackboard Building Block, a new tool that
integrates with the Blackboard Learning System, enabling online access
to tens of thousands of scholarly materials.

Blackboard Building Blocks are third party applications which enable
academic institutions to extend and customize their Blackboard
application. With two product suites , the Blackboard Academic Suite and
the Blackboard Commerce Suite, Blackboard is used by millions of people
at academic institutions around the globe, including colleges,
universities, K-12 schools and other education providers, as well as
textbook publishers and student-focused merchants that serve education
providers and their students.

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Collectively, ResearchNow
materials have been downloaded more than 3 million times in the past year. This Blackboard collaboration
brings first-of-its-kind visibility to both our peer-reviewed journal
imprint and our rapidly growing Digital Commons institutional repository
platform.
These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing
the Company's views as of any date subsequent to February 28, 2006.

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FirstStop WebSearch Becomes First Meta-Search Tool in Emerging Field of 'Social Bookmarks'

net and Spurl.FirstStopWebSearch.
NBCSearch provides high-relevancy listings at extremely fast speeds to
generate a greater quantity and quality of clicks, which leads to increased
revenue for the site operator and better leads for the advertiser .

Contact: Steve Honig
The Honig Company, Inc.

ResearchNow is a collection of academic materials drawing from several
primary sources: the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press
journals (27 and counting), bepress-hosted subject matter repositories such
as the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: The Collection of Biostatistics
Research Archive, and all working papers, preprints and other "grey
literature" content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that
have opted for inclusion.

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The bepress
repository platform has been co-marketed with ProQuest Information &
Learning since 2004 as Digital Commons.bepress.

Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and
prospects for Blackboard and other statements containing the words
"believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar
expressions , constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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Mainstream Advertising is
based in Woodland Hills, Calif. Innovate. In addition, the forward-looking
statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as
of February 28, 2006.

NBCSearch Hits 5 Billion Mark for Searches Per Month

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PRESS RELEASE Blackboard and Berkeley Electronic Press Announce ResearchNow Content Blackboard Building Block(TM)

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