BusyTonight.com Makes Over 500,000 Event Listings Searchable

BusyTonight.com, the largest nationwide event listings site, announced today that its database has surpassed 500,000 events in size, larger than any other source of event listings in the U.S.

The honorary half-millionth event is "Software: What VCs Are Funding and Why," an event at Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast Campus in Santa Clara, Calif., taking place Thursday, November 16th, 2006. Visit busytonight.com and search for "ann winblad" in "All Cities" for more information.

"We're pleased to see that our automated approach of compiling events has resulted in a vastly larger, more complete, and more current data set for our users," said CEO Joshua C. Lerner. BusyTonight.com's listings are aggregated and updated automatically by a custom search technology suite, which crawls the Web looking for newly published event listings.

The BusyTonight.com database currently stands at over 500,000 future events across the top 500 U.S. metros, with the best coverage in:

* New York City - 34,000 events
* Los Angeles - 22,000 events
* San Francisco - 19,000 events
* Philadelphia - 18,000 events
* and Chicago - 15,000 events

"The approach taken by our competitors - expecting users to type in events by hand - simply won't scale. In Los Angeles, Zvents has about 2,500 events, Citysearch about 2,000, and Upcoming.org fewer than 500. We're larger by an order of magnitude, and our database is growing rapidly." Since July 2006, the BusyTonight.com database has doubled in size.

"We aim to index every official event data source on the Internet," said BusyTonight.com COO Richard Mintz. Webmasters and event sponsors in the U.S. who want their listings to be included at no charge are invited to click the "Suggest URL" link at busytonight.com.

BusyTonight.com will begin expanding internationally in early 2007.

About BusyTonight.com
BusyTonight.com is the leading search engine for event listings, comprising over half a million unique, future events across the entire United States. Through its proprietary crawling and extraction technology, BusyTonight.com aggregates event listings from canonical sources - the official Web sites of venues, performers, and organizations. The company enables users to easily discover events worth attending, and to find others with similar interests. Founded in 2005, BusyTonight.com is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit busytonight.com.