DexOnline.com Records Tenth Consecutive Quarter As the Number One Local
Search Site
CARY, N.C., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- R.H. Donnelley (NYSE:
RHD) announced today for the tenth consecutive quarter more consumers in
the 14-state Dex region chose DexOnline.com(R) (http://www.dexonline.com)
than any other local online search site to find the businesses that offer
the goods and services they seek. According to the latest independent usage
data from comScore, DexOnline.com generated the most local online searches,
almost twice as many as the next closest competitor. R.H. Donnelley
provides local online search services and printed directories under the Dex
brand.
Following DexOnline.com, the top local online search sites in the Dex
14-state region include: Yahoo! (includes Yahoo! Yellow Pages and Yahoo!
Local), SuperPages, Google Local and Yellowpages.com.
"The continued leadership of DexOnline reflects the strength of our
local search experience," said Simon Greenman, senior vice president of
digital strategy, innovation and products. "Consumers want relevant,
accurate and complete information when searching for who sells the products
and services they seek in their communities, and no one does it better than
DexOnline.com."
Later this year, the company will launch the next generation of
DexOnline.com, which will include new features such as draggable maps and
map-based search, comparison-shopping pages, user-generated itineraries for
multi-stop shopping, and personal contact lists to help consumers build
personalized online yellow pages. This new site will also serve as the
foundation for a next-generation site that will begin rolling out across
the remaining R.H. Donnelley footprint in the first quarter of next year.
"Our goal is to connect advertisers with consumers, wherever and
whenever they are looking to purchase goods and services," said Greenman.
"With our trusted and established relationships with small- and
medium-sized businesses across our markets, we are uniquely positioned to
deliver a superior level of local content to consumers and deliver even
greater value to advertisers."
About R.H. Donnelley
R.H. Donnelley (RHD) is the nation's third largest Yellow Pages
publisher with significant online local search capabilities. The company
has more than 4,000 employees operating in 28 states across the United
States. Every day, consumers rely on the company's more than 625
directories, online city guides and local search Web sites to find
businesses that provide the products and services they need. RHD's
directories, which have a circulation of approximately 80 million, are
marketed under three of the industry's most recognized brands: AT&T Yellow
Pages (formerly SBC Yellow Pages) in Illinois and northwest Indiana; Dex(R)
Yellow Pages and EMBARQ Yellow Pages(TM) (formerly Sprint Yellow Pages(R)).
R.H. Donnelley's expanding presence on the Internet now includes the Best
Red Yellow Pages(R) brand at bestredyp.com(R) in its EMBARQ Yellow Pages
markets, in RHD's AT&T Yellow Pages markets at CHICAGOLANDYP.com and local
search services through Dex at DexOnline.com(R).
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future operating results or performance or business plans or prospects and
any other statements not constituting historical fact are "forward-looking
statements" subject to the safe harbor created by the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Where possible, the words "believe,"
"expect," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "will," "planned," "estimated,"
"potential," "goal," "outlook" and similar expressions, as they relate to
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beliefs and assumptions with respect to future business plans, prospects,
decisions and results, and are based on information currently available to
RHD. Accordingly, the statements are subject to significant risks,
uncertainties and contingencies, which could cause RHD's actual operating
results, performance or business plans or prospects to differ materially
from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements.
The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to
differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: (1) the risk
that the legacy Dex and RHD businesses will not be integrated successfully;
(2) the risk that the expected strategic advantages and cost savings from
the Dex Media merger may not be fully realized or may take longer to
realize than expected; (3) disruption from the Dex Media merger making it
more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, employees or
suppliers; and (4) general economic conditions and consumer sentiment in
our markets. Additional factors that could cause RHD's results to differ
materially from those described in the forward-looking statements are
described in detail in the registration statement on Form S-4 that RHD
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") (Registration
No. 333-129539), which contains the joint proxy statement/prospectus
relating to the transaction, RHD's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 in Item 1A "Risk Factors," Dex Media's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 in
Item 1A "Risk Factors," as well as RHD's and Dex Media's other periodic
filings with the SEC that are available on the SEC's website at
http://www.sec.gov.
SOURCE R.H. Donnelley
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Related links:
http://www.dexonline.com
http://www.dexmedia.com
CONTACT:
Investors, Jenny L. Apker of R.H. Donnelley,
+1-800-497-6329, jenny.apker@rhd.com; or Media, Jerry Brown of
Dex Media, +1-303-784-2451, jerry.brown@dexmedia.com
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