Founded in 1999 as eWorld Commerce Corporation, Local.com Corporation provides paid-search advertising services to businesses on the Internet. The company s services enable businesses to advertise their products and services with sponsored listings to search requests by Internet users. Its distribution model is designed to concurrently source sponsored listings from both direct advertisers, as well as advertisers of other paid-search engines, and then distributes those listings throughout its distribution network of more than 290 Web sites and search engines in response to specific keyword searches by consumers on those sites. The company also offers its services to directory assistance and Internet yellow pages companies in the United States and Europe. Local.com operates from its corporate headquarters in Irvine, California.