eHarmony and Friendster Launch Online Personals "Matching" System

eHarmony's Patented Technology Helps Friendster Members Find Compatible Singles for Love and Marriage

Pasadena, California - November 30, 2004 - Friendster® (www.friendster.com), the safe, fun and free online community that enables you to organize your social life, and eHarmony (www.eharmony.com), the Internet's premier relationship service, today announced an exclusive partnership to bring scientific matchmaking to Friendster's rapidly growing community. As part of the agreement, the companies will jointly launch a co-branded matching service that will combine eHarmony's patented Compatibility Matching SystemTM with Friendster's vibrant 13-million member community to help Friendster members find love and long-term relationships.

As social networking has grown in popularity, millions have joined Friendster to expand their network of friends and meet new people from around the world. "We have a great deal of synergy with eHarmony," said Scott Sassa, President and CEO, Friendster. "We provide a network for meeting new friends, dates or business partners with shared interests, while eHarmony provides the safest possible environment to explore deeper compatibility and cultivate serious, long-term romantic relationships. Both companies have built leading online services - from the ground up - and we are firmly committed to this partnership to offer our users additional opportunities beyond their circle of friends."

"Friendster has quickly captured the lead in the social networking space, enabling individuals to take advantage of who they know," said Greg Forgatch, CEO of eHarmony. "We are excited to leverage this unique demographic and reach out to an even greater number of singles worldwide. When Friendster's users are looking for more than a date, we have the proven capability to deliver truly compatible matches for building a long-term relationship."

About Friendster With over 13 million members, Friendster is a free online service that enables you to make new friends, communicate with existing friends, share information, organize activities, find dates, and reconnect with lost friends. Friendster has received several industry awards, including Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites of 2004 and Coolest Inventions of 2003. The Company was also nominated for the 2004 Wired Rave Awards and for a 2004 Webby Award and has been profiled in publications from Newsweek to Rolling Stone. Friendster is a privately held corporation headquartered in Mountain View, California and is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark Capital, Battery Ventures and individual investors.

About eHarmony

With over five million users, eHarmony is the Internet's premier relationship service. Founded by nationally known relationship expert, best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Neil Clark Warren, eHarmony is the first and only online relationship site dedicated exclusively to helping serious singles build lasting relationships for life-long love and happiness. With over 9,000 known marriages to date, eHarmony holds the only industry patent for its unique Compatibility Matching System™, bringing singles together using a scientifically-proven set of compatibility principles based on 35 years of research into marital success. Since its inception in 2000, eHarmony has been the first step down the aisle for thousands of its users. eHarmony is a private company headquartered in Pasadena, California and on the Web at www.eharmony.com.

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