Free Intranet Solutions Now Available for LocalBusiness.com Customers

BOSTON and FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2000) - Intranets.com (www.intranets.com) and LocalBusiness.com (www.localbusiness.com), today announced a partnership that will provide LocalBusiness.com small businesses users with co-branded intranet solutions. Available in mid-December, this free service will enable businesses to create their own co-branded company intranet sites with valuable business collaboration and communication tools.

Intranets.com is the world's largest and fastest growing provider of Web-based intranets. LocalBusiness.com, formerly dbusiness.com, is a leading provider of local breaking business news, intelligence, applications, tools and research resources in more than 28 major markets in the U.S.

"By partnering with a major content provider to businesses on the Web, Intranets.com is now exposed to a broader small- and -medium size business-customer base," said Steve Crummey, CEO and president of Intranets.com. "This partnership also helps LocalBusiness.com generate new channels of revenue, attract new customers and build customer loyalty."

"This free intranet solution is an easy-to-use and truly unique tool designed to enable small businesses to build their company's intranet site in a secure Web-based environment," said Bob Larsen, chief strategy officer of LocalBusiness.com. "This partnership adds an important and valuable feature to our site and is part of our overall commitment to help our small business users improve the way they manage their businesses."

Since Intranets.com launched its free intranet service in 1999, more than 325,000 small businesses and other groups have registered. Intranets.com's intranet solution provides users with everything they need to quickly and easily create their own intranet on the Web. From managing documents, publishing community announcements, maintaining users' contact information, and creating community event calendars, Intranets.com is the most affordable way for businesses to deploy an intranet.

For more information on partnering with Intranets.com, please contact Steve Fischer at- 781-932-0960 or sfischer@intranets.com.

About Intranets.com
Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure, web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure, customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" winner and is rated one of the world's "Top 25" leading service providers by ASPNews. The company has also been ranked by the Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts for two consecutive years. For more information or to take a FREE 30-day test drive, visit http://www.intranets.com/pr, e-mail corpsales@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-565-6000.

About idealab!
idealab! (www.idealab.com ) identifies, creates and operates Internet businesses. Founded in March 1996 by Bill Gross, idealab! currently has approximately 50 businesses in various stages of development. idealab! generates ideas for new Internet businesses and creates, capitalizes and operates a separate company to conduct each new business. Actively participating in the on-going operations of its network companies through board representation, information sharing and facilitating collaboration among the companies, idealab! also recruits management to oversee the day-to-day operations allowing senior management to concentrate on executing the business plan. Additionally, idealab! provides each operating company with a full range of operational support services including office space and the accompanying network infrastructure, technology, graphic design, marketing, competitive research, legal, accounting and business development services. idealab! public companies include eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS), GoTo.com (Nasdaq: GOTO), CitySearch (TMCS), NetZero (Nasdaq: NZRO) and Tickets.com (Nasdaq: TIXX).

About LocalBusiness.com LocalBusiness.com is the leading Internet provider of local business applications, breaking local news and intelligence, tools and research resources for small- and medium-sized businesses in over 28 major markets across the United States. In addition, LocalBusiness.com provides its services and applications under a private-label offering. LocalBusiness.com recently acquired TrueAdvantage, a top B2B online provider of private-label sales leads and RFP (requests for proposals) services. With more than 100 private-label partners accessing sales leads worth over $1.1 billion, TrueAdvantage has built one of the largest private-label of RFP/sales leads networks in the nation. The acquisition of TrueAdvantage, in addition to the 28 local B2B destination sites and other private-label applications, has positioned LocalBusiness.com as the leading business knowledge solution for small-and medium-sized businesses. The company's institutional investors include U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., the private equity fund sponsored by Wasserstein Perella & Co, Inc. TMCT Ventures, a venture capital fund, and Tribune Ventures, the strategic investment unit of Tribune Company. LocalBusiness.com also publishes digitalsouth magazine (digitalsouth.com), the only publication that covers leading-edge technology companies, venture capital and finance from the Mason-Dixon line to the Florida Keys and west to Texas.

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