Searchers Compare hakia.com Beta to Their Favorite Search Engine:

17% Say hakia.com is Better Overall;

23% Will Use hakia.com Exclusively or Most of the Time;

58% Will Recommend hakia.com

NEW YORK--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--hakia.com, the new meaning-based search engine, today released user survey results on the performance of hakia.com. Top line results show that, even in its BETA state, seventeen percent of users say hakia.com is better overall than their favorite search engine; twenty-three percent will use hakia.com exclusively or most of the time; and 58 percent will recommend hakia.com to friends. The results are based on 1,579 anonymous and voluntary survey submissions collected as of November 5, 2007. The survey can be accessed on the hakia.com site at survey.hakia.com.

Results are as follows:

Q. What is your first impression of hakia.com compared to your favorite search engine?
Better overall	17%
Better when the search query is more complex	18%
Better in certain topics	29%
About the same as my current search engine	20%
Worse than my current search engine	16%
Q. After testing hakia.com, which one applies to you?
Will use hakia.com exclusively	7%
Will use hakia.com most of the time	16%
Will use hakia.com 1/2 the time with favorite search engine	24%
Will use hakia.com occasionally	27%
Will not use hakia.com	8%
Undecided	18%
Q. Will you recommend hakia.com to your friends?
I will recommend it	58%
I will not recommend it	11%
I have not decided yet	31%

According to Dr. Riza C. Berkan, CEO of hakia.com, “These results reveal that there is frustration amongst users of search. Even in BETA, hakia.com is showing overall favorable performance. This signifies that search is still in its infancy. We are improving the industry with meaning-based search. Improved relevancy of search results is what we are already delivering as we move forward on our mission of search for better search.”

hakia.com will complete its development phase in 2008.

About hakia.com

hakia.com has developed the Web’s new meaning-based search engine. hakia.com utilizes a radically new infrastructure designed to deliver the most relevant search results. Founded in 2004, the company is privately held and based in New York City. Go to http://www.hakia.com.

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