The company continues to evaluate strategic alternatives and expects to have an announcement in this regard during the quarter. GoTo Shopping As announced last quarter, GoTo has decided to exit the comparison shopping business. The company has been unable to locate a suitable buyer and, as a result, plans to close its consumer shopping site and redeploy members of the Shopping team against its core search business. The following discussion contains forward-looking information intended solely to provide management's current expectations for 2001. This forward-looking information is subject to risks and uncertainties and, as a result, actual results may differ materially from these expectations.
All numbers are approximate.
GoTo reaches 64 million unique users, and has relationships with more than 42,000 active, paying advertisers, who place their product, service and information offerings through GoTo's services. During the first quarter of 2001, GoTo completed 314 million paid introductions, each of which represents the successful match of a user need with an advertiser offering. Please go to the site at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to download any necessary software. These forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. 2000 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.