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TMP Worldwide and WhizBang! Labs Announce Technology Partnership

Provo, UT, July 31, 2001 - WhizBang! Labs(tm), the leading global provider of information extraction products and services, announces a long-term strategic technology partnership with portal Monster. com. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, TMP has licensed WhizBang! Labs' information extraction technology for use across its business units TMP Worldwide, the world's leading supplier of human capital solutions, including the pre-eminent Internet career, including Monster.com, Executive Search, Recruitment Advertising, Directional Marketing and eResourcing, TMP's mid-market search division.

In addition to FlipDog.com, which finds and extracts job-posting information from the websites of hiring organizations and provides links to them from FlipDog.com, the WhizBang! extraction technology integrates unique software products that automatically find, classify and extract information from a wide variety of unstructured sources. These include corporate Intranets, extranets, web pages, news feeds and document databases, and the distilling of large volumes of business data into manageable tracts. With TMP Worldwide's business units serving employers and job seekers from "Intern-to-CEO," the company will apply this valuable technology to enhance the development of new business opportunities and client services at every level of employment need.

"This expanded relationship with WhizBang! Labs, following our recent acquisition of their career site FlipDog.com, will provide TMP with value added technology, complimenting our array of market-leading products and services," said Andrew J. McKelvey, chairman and CEO of TMP Worldwide. "WhizBang! Labs' extraction technology will provide all of TMP's business units with a powerful means of developing new client relationships and gaining the insights we need to maintain our competitive leadership in the marketplace."

For additional information, please visit www.whizbang.com and www.tmp.com

Copyright (c) 2001 by WhizBang! Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. WhizBang!, WhizBang! Labs, the WhizBang! Extraction Framework, and all other WhizBang! Labs product or service marks referenced herein are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of WhizBang! Labs, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

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