FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, August 9, 1999

CONTACTS:

Bill Chasse, President, infoUSA.com

Phone: (408) 746-0603

Foster City, CA

E-mail: bill.chasse@infousa.com

Laurel Gottesman, Investor Relations, Cameron Associates

Phone: (212) 554-5466 Fax: (212) 245-4165

E-mail: laurel@cameronassoc.com

infoUSA.com Announces Three New Partners for Free Internet White and Yellow Page Services

(Silicon Valley, CA) – infoUSA.com, (NASDAQ: IUSAA) (NASDAQ: IUSAB) the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases and Internet white and yellow page directory services, today announced that three new partners will begin using infoUSA.com’s private label white and yellow page directory services. These new partners are: BudgetSeek (www.budgetseek.com), Dag Media Inc. (www.porty.com) and V-TECH, inc. (www.vtechlink.com). infoUSA.com began offering private label directory services to corporate web sites and Intranets in April in order to generate increased traffic, more advertising dollars and additional content sales for its small business portal site, www.infousa.com. infoUSA.com now has over 330,000 registered users and receives approximately 12 million page views per month, and this number is steadily increasing, partially due to traffic from these directory service partners. For example, additional traffic from infoUSA.com partner, address.com, totaled 30,000 page views during its first week alone and 411.com receives approximately 40,000 page views per day.

These sites join the 150 companies that have already signed contracts with infoUSA.com to use the private label directory service. By clicking on the directory assistance icon at these sites users will be seamlessly linked to the infoUSA.com site, where they can purchase online a wide variety of infoUSA products and services. These include unique sales leads products such as customer analyzerä , business credit reports, company profiles, mailing lists, business directories and CD ROM’s/DVD’s. Additional content such as maps, news and weather will also be available as part of the private label service. The private label feature allows infoUSA’s partners to continue to display their own logo throughout these transactions, thus maintaining brand identity. Over 500 companies have already requested that infoUSA.com enable their web sites with these private label yellow and white page solutions.

Bill Chasse, infoUSA.com president, said, "The addition of these partners represent an excellent opportunity for infoUSA.com to greatly increase its online advertising revenue and grow its Internet content sales and customer base by capturing a large user population of small businesses, entrepreneurs and sales professionals. Content is king, and infoUSA owns the highest quality, proprietary directory content along with the most sophisticated search options. infoUSA.com’s directories enable these private label partners to offer important content, as well as valuable infoUSA products and services."

infoUSA, founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products and database marketing services. The infoUSA databases power the directory services of the top traffic-generating Internet sites including InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and AOL (Nasdaq: AOL). The company has partnership agreements with several Internet companies, including Mapquest.com (Nasdaq: MQST), DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK), Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL), USWeb/CKS (Nasdaq: USWB), Dell (Nasdaq: Dell) and Zip2 (a division of Compaq). Nearly two million customers use the products and services for direct marketing, telemarketing, marketing planning, lead generation, sales planning, customer analysis and credit reference. infoUSA.com headquarters are now located at 378 Vintage Park Drive, Foster City, California, 94404. infoUSA.com can be contacted at (408) 746-0603.

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