AT&T licenses Lycos navigation tools for WorldNet Internet Service; Lycos navigation tools will guide AT&T WorldNet users through their internet searches

Business Wire, April 9, 1996

MARLBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--APRIL 9, 1996--Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCOS) announced today it will license its full suite of Internet guides to AT&T for use as a navigation tool in the new WorldNetSM Service, AT&T's value-added Internet access service In an arrangement scheduled to begin in April, Lycos services, including the popular Lycos catalog, Point Reviews and the new a2z directory, will be adopted by AT&T to help WorldNet users better navigate the Internet.

AT&T and its AT&T WorldNet Service made headlines with a late February announcement of a special trial offer. The offer gives AT&T residential long distance customers who register by December 31, 1996 free access to the Internet for five hours each month for one year after registration.

"There is obvious synergy to this arrangement," said Lycos President and CEO Robert J. Davis. "AT&T's new service is designed to help people find their way into cyberspace, and has chosen the Lycos products to help guide their customers toward the specific information they're looking for on the Internet."

The Lycos services will appear with a new WorldNet look and feel. Lycos, which is best known for its keyword search engine, now contains nearly 35 million unique URLs for comprehensive searching.

"Lycos brings a valuable set of navigation tools to AT&T WorldNet Service," said Tom Evslin, AT&T vice president of AT&T WorldNet Service. "One of the advantages of our service is the power it gives customers to locate people and information on the Internet. Lycos' services are an important part of that capability."

AT&T WorldNet Service includes a world-class, 24-hour, toll-free hotline, directories and topical areas to help people find useful information, guided tours for newcomers, navigational aids for users of all skill levels, including an AT&T-branded version of the Netscape Navigator browser software, and electronic mail. With available software that can also be easily downloaded, parents will be able to block access to portions of the Internet they regard a unsuitable for their children.

Lycos offers three lenses through which users can easily explore the World Wide Web, whether browsing categories, searching specific topics or seeking out objective reviews of the Web's best sites. Besides its spidering technology for topic- or word-specific searching, the Lycos services include the highly respected Point Reviews, critical assessments of web sites; and the brand new a2z directory of sites, organized in 16 popular categories and nearly a thousand sub-categories, for easy browsing through topics of information available on the Internet. The URLs contained in a2z are the Net's most popular -- those with the greatest number of external links pointing to them from other sites, and therefore bearing the Web community's own endorsement of their content and value.

Lycos, Inc., an Internet exploration company, was founded specifically to identify and categorize information on the Internet and World Wide Web. Lycos was formed by CMG@Ventures, a strategic Internet investment and development company of CMG Information Services, Inc. Lycos has licensed the Lycos Spider Technology from Carnegie Mellon University on an exclusive basis.

CMG Information Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:CMGI) is a majority shareholder in Lycos, Inc. through its @Ventures strategic investment and development business unit. CMGI is a leading provider of direct marketing services and an innovator in the development of Internet, interactive media and database management technologies. -0-

AT&T WorldNet is a service mark of AT&T.; Netscape Navigator is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corp.; The Lycos "Catalog of the Internet" Copyright, 1994, 1995, 1996 Carnegie Mellon University, All rights reserved; Lycos is a trademark of Carnegie Mellon University a2z is a service mark of Lycos, Inc.; Point, Point Reviews and Point Now are service marks of Point Communications Corporation, a wholly-owned Lycos subsidiary; All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of respective owners.

CONTACT: Sarah Garnsey

Lycos, Inc.

508/229-0717 ext. 228

sgarnsey@lycos.com

or

Chris Pfaff

AT&T

908/658-5804

cpfaff@attmail.com

or

Erika Schutz

Mullen Public Relations (for Lycos)

508/468-1155

eschutz@mullen.com