Frontier Communications Asserts Leadership in Hosting Solutions for Information Retrieval and Portal Web Sites

Business Wire, May 18, 1999

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1999--

Ask Jeeves, Looksmart, TOPCLiCK, www.com and GoProfit.com

outsource content hosting needs to Frontier

Frontier Communications today announced the addition of five leading Internet information Web sites as its newest content hosting services customers for its data and Internet arm Frontier GlobalCenter. Ask Jeeves(TM), Looksmart, TOPCLiCK, www.com and GoProfit.com are the newest customers among an extensive list consisting of the most trafficked information retrieval and portal destination properties available today, including Yahoo!, About.com (formerly MiningCo.com), and RemarQ Communities.

The addition of these customers illustrates Frontier's ability to serve both the information-distribution and information-consumption Internet markets. The recent opening of the company's Media Distribution Centers (MDCs) in Silicon Valley and New York City, and the completion of its coast-to-coast high speed Internet backbone (2.5 Gigabits per second), puts Frontier in a leading position to support the intense Internet traffic explosion that is doubling every six months.

"Frontier helps customers in two critical areas," said Don Detampel, president of Frontier GlobalCenter. "The first is ensuring that Web traffic successfully arrives at our customers' sites; the second is to distribute our customers' information successfully back to individuals placing Internet requests."

Frontier's content distribution and Web hosting services provide one of the most comprehensive and best performing services available today:

-- Geographically dispersed state-of-the-art Media Distribution

Centers (MDCs)

-- 24 x 7 Network Operations

-- Intelligent routing software to ensure the fast and reliable

delivery of content to end-users

-- Nationwide access points - over 200 locations

-- Strong and extensive private and public peering: 60 tier-one

interconnects to over 200 systems

-- Direct link to the Frontier Optronics Network(SM), a

state-of-the-art data communications network

Said Jason Wilkes, Vice President of Business Development at TOPCLiCK, regarding Frontier's hosting services, "The choice for us was easy. We needed to work with someone who understands that our revenue relies entirely upon our Web presence; if our servers are down, we're history. Frontier gets it - they make it happen."

About Looksmart

Looksmart, a leading Web directory and search tool, creates and maintains the largest editorially reviewed directory of content on the World Wide Web. Looksmart's directory is distributed through multiple channels, including a global network of ISPs, major Web sites, portals and viral marketing. Through its partnership with Cox Interactive Media, Looksmart also offers the largest collection of quality local Web content in more than 65 U.S. markets. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and can be contacted at (415) 597-4850. To see why more and more partners, advertisers, and consumers are turning to Looksmart, visit them at www.looksmart.com.

About Ask Jeeves, Inc.

Ask Jeeves is the first company to develop an Internet-wide, natural language, question-answering service for consumers who need a fast, intuitive and trusted way to find answers to their questions online. Ask Jeeves helps humanize the Internet by allowing people to ask questions in plain English, and receive direct, accurate responses. Ask Jeeves connects consumers to answers - through its public Web sites, www.ask.com and www.ajkids.com, and through the Web sites of companies that use its Corporate Question-Answering Service(TM). For more information visit http://www.ask.com or call (510) 649-8685.

About TOPCLiCK (OTCBB: TOCK)

TOPCLiCK International Inc. www.topclick.com - Building the fastest way to the top of the web! A fast, and simple approach to navigating the Internet! TOPCLiCK's features include "central keyword searching." This provides one-stop keyword searching across the top Portal sites including Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos, GoTo.com, Go Network, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Northern Light, Looksmart, Infoseek, Snap, Webcrawler, AOL Netfind, HotBot and AltaVista. The site also features access to popular destination sites by choosing from thousands of information subjects. For more information visit www.topclick.com. The company can also be reached by telephone at (604) 737-1127.

About WWW.COM

WWW.COM is one of the fastest growing Portals on the Internet; leveraging the most natural URL in cyberspace with a combination of common and proprietary channel content which is friendly, easy to navigate, and deep. The site currently offers a search engine, the PenPal Connection, Romance Rendezvous, and basic services of maps, yellow/white pages, and classifieds. In the next 60 days WWW.COM will release a free web-based email service, as well as channels for weather, finance, chat, communities, and entertainment.

As a "new media broadcast company" building both content and traffic, WWW.COM is leveraging its special address and position on the web into a community that brings people together every day; adding features and services which engage people unlike anything else on the Net. For more information visit WWW.COM at, well, www.com, or send an email to www.com">corporate@www.com.