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CODiE Honor Latest in a String of Accomplishments for Industry's Top On-Demand Site Search Solution SAN DIEGO, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI), the leader in on-demand digital marketing solutions and real-time enterprise analytics, today announced that its site search solution has won the prestigious CODiE Award for Best Enterprise Search Engine. The awards were presented last night at the Software & Information Industry Association's 21st Annual CODiE Awards Gala in San Francisco. Established in 1986, the SIIA's CODiE Awards are one of the biggest honors in the software industry, annually recognizing leaders and innovators in several different fields. WebSideStory was joined in the winner's circle by companies such as salesforce.com, Intuit, Amazon, Adobe Systems and many others. WebSideStory Search is an on-demand site search solution that quickly and easily guides visitors to the information, products and services they seek. More than 300 enterprises worldwide rely on the solution to increase conversions, reduce customer support costs and enhance the overall customer experience. WebSideStory Search is part of the Active Marketing Suite, the industry's first suite of integrated, on-demand digital marketing applications including web analytics, site search, keyword bid management and web content management. "This 21st Annual CODiE Awards continues our tradition of celebrating the best products in the software and information industry," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "Being a winner among so many fine nominees is a solid achievement. I congratulate all of the companies." Last night's award closely follows the launch of WebSideStory Search 4.0, which introduced a number of industry first capabilities into the market, including Active Ranking -- a patent-pending capability that enables marketers to automatically drive site search results based on the full spectrum of web site behavioral data. Brooks Brothers saw an immediate 25 percent uptick in sales via site search by using Active Ranking. Other capabilities in the new version include automating product submissions into comparison shopping engines, such as Froogle, and automating feeds into Google Sitemaps, a service that enables site owners to submit which web pages they want to be indexed by the search engine giant. For more information on Search 4.0, please visit http://www.websidestory.com/. "We are pleased to be recognized by the SIIA for our leadership and innovation in the market," said Steve Kusmer, General Manager and Senior Vice President for WebSideStory's Search and Content Solutions division. "We accept this prestigious award on behalf of our many customers and employees, who together have created the leading on-demand site search solution in the market." With the CODiE win, WebSideStory has received more recognition for its site search solution over the past year than any other vendor in the industry. Those honors include the CODiE Award; being recognized as a top-ranked solution by the Patricia Seybold Group in its review of major site search vendors (Feb. 2006); being named one of KMWorld's "Trend-Setting Products of the Year" (Sept. 2005); and being recognized by Jupiter Research for having one of the best site and e-commerce search solutions in the market (July 2005). In the Jupiter Constellation, no other search vendor outranked WebSideStory in terms of both market suitability and overall business value. The SIIA received a record number of entries this year -- more than 1,026 submissions from 500 companies. The awards encompass a total of 71 categories spanning software, digital content and education. The awards were judged by a combination of journalists and peers. For a complete list of winners, please visit http://www.siia.net/codies/2006/winners.asp. About WebSideStory, Inc. Founded in 1996, WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI) is a leading provider of on-demand digital marketing and real-time enterprise analytics solutions that improve online marketing, sales and business operations. Its Active Marketing Suite(TM) consists of web analytics, site search, web content management, and keyword bid management. WebSideStory also provides enterprise analytics solutions through its wholly owned subsidiary, Visual Sciences, LLC, a leading provider of streaming data analysis and visualization software. WebSideStory is headquartered in San Diego, California, and has European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For more information, contact WebSideStory. Voice: 858.546.0040. Fax: 858.546.0480. Address: 10182 Telesis Court, 6th Floor, San Diego, CA 92121. Web site: http://www.websidestory.com/. HBX and Active Marketing Suite are trademarks and WebSideStory is a registered trademark of WebSideStory. Visual Sciences is a registered trademark of Visual Sciences, LLC. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements. You should not regard any forward-looking statement as a representation by WebSideStory that any of its plans will be achieved. Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in this release due to the risks and uncertainties inherent in WebSideStory's business, including, without limitation: WebSideStory's reliance on its web analytics services for the majority of its revenue; blocking or erasing of cookies or limitations on our ability to use cookies; WebSideStory's limited experience with digital marketing applications beyond web analytics; the risks associated with integrating the operations and products of Avivo Corporation and Visual Sciences, LLC with those of WebSideStory; privacy concerns and laws or other domestic or foreign regulations that may subject WebSideStory to litigation or limit our ability to collect and use Internet user information; WebSideStory's ability to defend itself against claims of patent infringement alleged by NetRatings, Inc.; WebSideStory's ongoing ability to protect its own intellectual property rights and to avoid violating the intellectual property rights of third parties; the highly competitive markets in which we operate that could make it difficult for WebSideStory to acquire and retain customers; the risk that WebSideStory's customers fail to renew their agreements; WebSideStory's recent achievement of profitability and the risk that it may not maintain its profitability; the risk that WebSideStory's services may become obsolete in a market with rapidly changing technology and industry standards; and other risks described in WebSideStory's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including WebSideStory's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Do not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date of this news release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and WebSideStory undertakes no obligation to revise or update this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this news release. DATASOURCE: WebSideStory, Inc. CONTACT: Erik Bratt of WebSideStory, Inc., +1-858-546-0040, ext. 365, Web site: http://www.siia.net/codies/2006/winners.asp Web site: http://www.websidestory.com/

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