KEECA LAUNCHES FREE LOCAL ONLINE CLASSIFIEDS POWERED BY LIVEDEAL.COM

January 01, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Lifestyle News
Keeca, Inc., a free search service for consumers that provides users with instant access to web pages and shopping deals, today announced it has added free local online classifieds to its site, powered by LiveDeal.com through LiveDeal’s innovative AdShare program. Keeca.com offers thousands of up-to-date deals at any time, covering online coupons in a variety of categories with sales, clearances, outlets and price-drops. Best deals are selected from more than a thousand online merchants, travel sites and event ticket sources. With LiveDeal’s AdShare program, Keeca is instantly launching its own branded online classifieds site — complete with photos, e-commerce and email capabilities — at no cost via LiveDeal’s online classifieds platform.

Keeca’s online classifieds powered by LiveDeal.com provide consumers with a cost-effective, easy-to-use and efficient solution for buying and selling goods in every local market across the U.S., with the option to buy and sell nationally. They are especially ideal for buying and selling hard-to-ship items such as cars, furniture, pets, appliances, real estate and other "try before you buy" items as they help eliminate shipping costs and reduce fraud by fostering local transactions.

"Thanks to our new relationship with LiveDeal, we have further enriched our user experience by adding the power of local online classifieds,” said Hsufeng Ko, president of Keeca. “Keeca's mission has always been to help consumer shop smartly. Not only do we provide extensive online coupons and deals information to consumers, we also try to bring other types of deals into our network by partnership with content providers with information about jobs, travel, tickets, etc. With LiveDeal, our visitors instantly have access to hundreds of thousands of classifieds listings both in their local area and nationally. Consumers now can shop both online and offline by searching discount deals from one single source, www.keeca.com.”

“More and more Web sites are recognizing the value of adding local classifieds to their online offerings,” said Steve Harmon, vice president of corporate development for LiveDeal. “We’re delighted to welcome Keeca to the LiveDeal family and enable all Keeca’s users to tap into our fast-growing local online marketplace that’s available to every city and state in the U.S., with more than $3 billion worth of goods listed for sale.”


About LiveDeal
LiveDeal is a leader in free local online classifieds with more than $3 billion worth of goods listed for sale, available in every city and state in the U.S. With both its marketplace at LiveDeal.com, and key partnerships with online and offline media, LiveDeal is ideal for trading “see or try before you buy” items such as pets, automobiles, furniture, appliances, real estate and more. Buying locally eliminates shipping costs and reduces fraud. Buyers can browse or search for items using LiveDeal’s easy-to-use web interface, seeing what’s available locally based on distance. Sellers enjoy a free local listing with optional enhancements, resulting in a more cost-effective marketplace to list their goods and services. For more information, visit www.livedeal.com.

About Keeca, Inc.
Keeca offers its unique shopping centric search technology to connect consumers direct to merchants. Founded in 2001 by a group of seasonal software developers, Keeca today operations several online portals, servicing deal search, web search, job search, education search, coupon search and real-time web statistic. Keeca's innovative browsing based incentive engine powers its coupon portal proved it can bring a much higher ROI for online shopping portal such as www.myjaco.com. Keeca is headquartered in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.keeca.com.


SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Keeca cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on plans and expectations as of the date of the press release, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the performance and characteristics of Keeca's service. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. Keeca assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release, which represents the Company's expectations only as of the date of this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the Company's expectations after such date. Although this release may remain available on the Company's website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.