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Press Release - 23/03/05

MONEYNET ABANDONS POP-UPS IN MOVE TO MAKE SITE MORE CONSUMER FRIENDLY

FOLLOWING a review of customer experience, Moneynet.co.uk has decided to remove all pop-ups from its site.

No further bookings will be taken for pop-up advertising once the existing campaigns have run their course, and the site will be pop-up free from mid-April.

Moneynet has also invested heavily in the technical architecture supporting the site.

New servers have been commissioned and installed and the website is now supported by dual database servers and dual web servers which are load-balanced for resilience and speed. The result is a significant increase in page loading speeds, with average times coming down from over 10 seconds to under 4 seconds.

"We are always looking for ways to improve user experience and we think that we have made substantial inroads both in terms of speed of delivery and the user-friendliness of the site," said Moneynet chief executive Richard Brown.

"In fact almost overnight we saw a lengthening of user session times and the number of pages viewed. These improvements are part of an on-going development phase and we will be announcing further developments to the service over the coming months."

PRESS ENQUIRIES

Richard Brown, Chief Executive, 0208 313 9030

David Andrews/Cathy Tully, David Andrews Media Ltd 07941 255855 / 01273 774109 / 07747196854

Consumer enquiries: info@moneynet.co.uk / www.moneynet.co.uk

Moneynet.co.uk is the UK's longest established online personal finance research and data analyst company. The company offers consumers a choice of thousands of low cost financial services products. From mortgages, personal loans to motor, home and medical insurance, credit cards, savings accounts and best buy fixed rate products, Moneynet is one of the most comprehensive online services of its kind in the UK. Founded by chief executive Richard Brown, the Moneynet brand is destined to become one of the UK's major players in consumer finance products.

A DAVID ANDREWS MEDIA LTD - RELEASE FEBRUARY 2005