iWon.com Announces Million Dollar Winner

iWon.com Announces Million Dollar Winner

iWon.com Winner Surprised on 'The Tony Danza Show'

IRVINGTON, N.Y., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- iWon.com, (www.iwon.com) a leading loyalty-based Web portal and property of Ask Jeeves, Inc., today announced that Ronald Kinsey of Norman, Oklahoma, is the winner of its 2005 $1 million cash prize giveaway, and the portal's 25th millionaire since 1999. The million-dollar check was awarded to Kinsey on "The Tony Danza Show," a nationally syndicated daytime talk show in which Tony Danza surprised Kinsey with the news that he is iWon.com's latest millionaire.

"I have watched reality TV, so I know the crazy things people will do for a million dollars," said Kinsey. "All I did was sign up for an email account with iWon.com, and today I'm a millionaire. I guess I'm the lucky one."

iWon.com is a leading Internet portal, offering consumers robust search, email and premium content, in addition to cash prizes -- $10,000 every weekday, thousands more on weekends, and an annual giveaway of up to $25 million. iWon.com's registered users reap the benefits of their loyalty, as the more they interact with the site, the more likely they are to be an iWon.com winner. To date, iWon.com has given away more than $63 million to more than 260,000 people. In addition, the million-dollar winners are eligible to win $25 million in a subsequent lottery. Mr. Kinsey has been using iWon.com since January 2000, primarily for email and to get the latest news.

"Because iWon.com provides users with search, email, content, and the chance to win cash, our motto has always been 'why wouldn't you?'" said Jon Brod, senior vice president of portals for Ask Jeeves, Inc., the owner of iWon.com. "iWon.com congratulates Ronald Kinsey on becoming an iWon.com millionaire, and we hope that he and his family enjoy his new wealth."

For a list of all of iWon.com's winners or to register, visit www.iwon.com.

"The Tony Danza Show" is a live entertainment talk show featuring celebrities and everyday people, all presented with a positive and upbeat approach. With his self-effacing sense of humor, natural gift for storytelling and genuine charm, Danza brings a unique yet familiar face to daytime television. A staple of American pop culture for 25 years, his popularity and versatility make him perfectly suited to host daytime talk. In addition to sharing his own interesting stories and experiences, "The Tony Danza Show" showcases hometown heroes, amazing kids and incredible people who personify strength, character and spirit. The show marks a new chapter for this multi-talented entertainer and an exciting new choice in daytime television. "The Tony Danza Show" is distributed by Buena Vista Television.

About iWon.com

As a leading loyalty-based Web portal, iWon (www.iwon.com) combines world- class search functionality, full portal personalization, and robust content from industry-leading sources with one of the Internet's largest, guaranteed cash giveaways. iWon attracts a large, loyal and responsive user base. To date, iWon has given away total cash prizes of $63,311,000 and had 268,745 winners.

About Ask Jeeves, Inc.

Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk); Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp, a joint venture); Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com); Bloglines (Bloglines.com); Excite (excite.com); iWon (iwon.com); My Search (mysearch.com); My Way (myway.com); My Web Search (mywebsearch.com) and Teoma (teoma.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the search technology Teoma, proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies. In addition to powering several of the Ask Jeeves brands, the Company syndicates its technologies to help companies increase revenue through powerful search. Ask Jeeves' advertising division, AJinteractive, provides advertisers with targeted tools to reach a broad base of valuable customers. Ask Jeeves, Inc. is headquartered in Oakland, California, with offices throughout the United States, as well as in London, England and Dublin, Ireland. For more information, visit http://www.ask.com/ or call 510-985-7400.

NOTE: Ask Jeeves, AJinteractive, Ask.com, Teoma, My Way, My Search, My Web Search, iWon, Excite and Bloglines are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ask Jeeves, Inc.

Source: Ask Jeeves, Inc.

CONTACT: Colby Zintl of Ask Jeeves Corporate Communications, +1-510-985-7640 or czintl@askjeeves.com; or Darcy Cobb of Dotted Line Communications, +1-310-472-8600 or darcy@dottedlinecomm.com, for Ask Jeeves

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