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Bomis.com Partners with StateConnect.com to Provide Local Area Content on Thousands of Cities NationwideSAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2000 - StateConnect.com (http://www.stateconnect.com), creator of the all-in-one local solution on the Web, today announced a partnership with Bomis.com, (http://www.bomis.com) a unique and rising Internet search engine and web portal.Bomis.com has partnered with StateConnect.com to provide a privately labeled, comprehensive local guide system under Bomis.com's "City Guide" and "Maps" subject categories. The partnership will provide Bomis.com with the ability to offer value-added localized content and increase the overall web experience for end-users. In turn StateConnect.com will have the opportunity to boost traffic flow by tapping into Bomis.com's 50 million monthly page views. According to New York based Cyber Dialogue, local information ranks as the sixth most accessed category among users of the World Wide Web. StateConnect.com provides more than 121 categories of local content and helpful tools such as local news, weather, maps, white and yellow pages, and much more for thousands of large and small cities nationwide. By partnering with StateConnect.com, Bomis.com can provide end-users useful localized information to help them make informed decisions about their daily lives. "This partnership with Bomis.com helps us to strengthen our local market presence," said Jordan Lind, Vice President of Marketing. "Through private labeling StateConnect.com is able to deliver our superior localized content, community, and commerce to the millions of viewers visiting Bomis.com." "Bomis is rapidly becoming functionally superior to the other web portals," said Jimmy Wales, CEO of Bomis. "Our aggressive co-branding strategy enables us to bring top quality content to the consumer at very low cost. The result for us is rapidly growing traffic and extraordinary profitability." About StateConnect.com StateConnect.com creatively selects and integrates the best local information on the web through multiple partnerships to deliver local products and services that build online communities and provide end-users and Portals relevant local information via the Web. The Company is successfully building a local platform that will give Web Companies the ability to reach both consumers and businesses that are interested in accessing local content or developing an e-commerce enabled local presence. StateConnect.com uses a business model similar to Inktomi (Nasdaq:INKT) and Infospace (Nasdaq:INSP), to private label and distribute its product. The Company's information consists of a content rich database providing portals and end-users with a wide variety of highly detailed localized information, exceeding the reach of City Search (Nasdaq:TMCS), and AOL's Digital City (NYSE:AOL). StateConnect.com is partnered with several of the industries top companies to provide niche information that together creates an overall package of superior localized information. About Bomis.com Bomis, Inc. (http://www.bomis.com/) is located in sunny San Diego, California. Bomis is an Internet search engine and web portal specializing in the web ring format in its search results. Bomis has 50 million page views per month, and continues to grow 10-15% per month. Bomis.com is a community-oriented search engine with over 11,000 members who build web rings on their favorite topics, use free web mail, and win prizes in contests. CONTACT: For StateConnect.com Nicole Hagerman, 406/549-7025 (Public Relations) hagerman@stateconnect.com or For Bomis.com Jimmy Wales, 858/273-9361 (CEO and President) jwales@bomis.com www.bomis.com
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