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YP Corp. Offers Free New Toolbar to Make Searching Easier, Block Pop-Ups

From Blocking Pop-Up Ads to Searching for Businesses, New Toolbar Does It All

MESA, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2004--YP Corp., (OTCBB:YPNT) a leading provider of Internet-based yellow pages and related services, is offering users a new toolbar plug-in that will do everything from block pop-up ads to make it even easier to find businesses locally and all across the country. As well as function, the toolbar provides entertainment too. The toolbar will take users to sites to download video games and music with a click of the mouse.
The new toolbar is part of YP Corp.'s commitment to making its web site THE online yellow page site of choice. The Company has embarked on an aggressive quarterly schedule of adding features that will make its YP.Com site the most flexible, powerful, useful and fun yellow page site on the Internet.

The toolbar, which can be downloaded from the YP.Com site (www.yp.com), will stay on the user's screen and offer buttons for searching YP.Com's base of 18 million business listings, as well as searching the Internet or downloading music, video games and other entertainment. Meanwhile, the toolbar automatically blocks annoying pop-up and pop-under ads that clutter the user's screen.

"We don't use pop-ups or other distracting ads on YP.Com and we don't think people should be subjected to them," said John Raven, YP Corp.'s Chief Technology Officer. Unlike some downloadable toolbars, Raven said, the YP Corp. toolbar is not spyware. It does not collect information on the user's web surfing habits or what sites have been visited. "We want to help our users, not spy on them," Raven said.

The toolbar also features a dictionary feature to look up words and a highlight feature to point out search terms in text. It also offers a menu of news sources to choose from. The toolbar is customizable so users can show or hide any of the features.

The toolbar is available for download at www.yp.com or Cnet's www.downloads.com.

About YP Corp.

YP Corp., a leading provider of Internet-based Yellow Pages services, offers an Internet Advertising Package(TM) ("IAP") that includes a Mini-WebPage(TM) and Preferred Listing through its Yellow Pages web site at www.YP.Com. The Company's web site contains listings for approximately 18 million businesses in the United States and 150 million individuals in the United States and Canada. As of March 31, 2004, YP Corp. had approximately 305,000 IAP advertisers.

YP Corp. also provides an array of other Internet services that complement its Yellow Pages web site, including an Internet Dial-Up Package(TM) (dial-up Internet access) and QuickSite(TM) (web site design & hosting services).

YP Corp. is a longstanding member, exhibitor and sponsor of the two major Yellow Pages trade associations -- Yellow Page Integrated Media Association "YPIMA," the major trade association of Yellow Pages publishers throughout the world, and the Association of Directory Publishers "ADP," which mostly represents independent Yellow Pages publishers. YP Corp. is based in Mesa, AZ. For more information, visit the web site at www.YP.Com.

Contacts


YP Corp Public Relations
Rick Cook, 480-654-9646
rickc@ypcorp.com

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