FanSnap Named Most Innovative New Search Engine

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ FanSnap) - FanSnap, the live event ticket search engine for fans, today announced that it been named winner of the "Most Innovative New Search Engine" category of the Search Engine Watch (SEW) Awards 2009.

"The FanSnap team is proud to receive this award at the prestigious Search Engine Strategies Conference," said Mike Janes, CEO and co-founder of FanSnap. "While there is tremendous attention, rightfully so, on Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's Bing, the pace and quality of innovation in specialized search across so many industries is mind-blowing, and we were incredibly impressed by the finalists in all the categories."

The mission of the SEW Awards is to recognize excellence, as well as inspire innovation and encourage new ideas in search marketing. The SEW Awards are judged by a panel of industry experts and the Search Engine Watch editorial staff, and announced at the annual Search Engine Strategies Conference.

The judges named FanSnap the winner after considering innovation in methodology and execution, achieving success goals, excellence in tactical execution, and overall approach and category relevance.

FanSnap, which launched in March 2009, currently displays detailed, ticket-level results from dozens of ticketing providers, with listings totaling over twelve million sports, theatre and concert tickets and thirty thousand events.

The FanSnap ticket search engine has several industry-first features, the most prominent being its patent-pending dynamic FanSnap Maps(SM), which allow fans to:

- Determine at-a-glance the ticket price range by section using colored
"heat map" markers
- Zoom into the interactive maps and see the ticket offers from numerous
providers placed in clearly labeled rows

Two new powerful features recently added to FanSnap are:

- Best Values, which make it easy for fans to view at-a-glance the
lowest price tickets available in key areas of the venue, easily identified
as blue stars on the FanSnap Maps
- Ticket and List Sharing, which make it easy for fans to share not only
events, but one or more actual ticket listings, via Facebook, or Twitter,
or email