San Mateo, California - November 1, 2005 - Oodle, a local search engine company specializing in classified ads, has expanded its reach to encompass 49 metro areas, which represents more than 50 percent of the U.S. population.

The new service areas include: Austin, Baltimore, Charlotte, Columbia, El Paso, Fort Meyers, Greensboro, Hartford, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Memphis, Nashville, Norfolk, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Providence, Raleigh, Rochester, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Tallahassee, Tampa and West Palm Beach.

With Oodle, consumers can quickly search the largest number of online listings in their area, whether they are looking for an apartment, car or pet.

Oodle's search index now contains over 4.5 million listings from thousands of separate sources. For consumers with limited time, Oodle makes it easy to find the best deals using a special Oodle Alerts feature. Users simply set up an Alert and Oodle emails them the minute the item they're looking for is available.

Randy White, an Oodle user from Harwood Heights, Illinois, explained his experience with the local search engine, ''Oodle is just great. I can't stop using it. It makes searching for just about anything incredibly easy. In the few days since I discovered Oodle, I passed the word around and everyone seems equally impressed.''

Oodle plans to add additional sources to its index, ranging from big sites to smaller community sources like local newspapers and specialized national sites such as Mykidscloset and TruckerToTrucker.com. Classified publishers welcome the exposure that Oodle gives their advertisers, as Oodle's traffic has more than doubled in the last quarter.

According to Mr. Tim Fagan, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Apartments.com, ''Oodle sends qualified renters to our site. This creates additional visibility for Apartments.com and is good for our advertisers.''

To learn more about Oodle and its approach to local search, please visit: www.oodle.com .