EDGAR Online Announces European Partnership at EBIC 2000 Conference

Perfect Information Selects EDGAR Online to Supply Data to its International Corporate Client Base

AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND, March 8, 2000 - EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR) announced it has formed a partnership with Perfect Information, one of the United Kingdom’s leading information companies, to provide a full range of U.S. business and investment information to its European clients. The announcement was made at the European Business Information Conference in Amsterdam, a conference focusing on the issues impacting the global business information market.

Perfect Information, a subsidiary of Centaur Communications Limited, supplies an international corporate client base of investment banks, corporate stockbrokers, lawyers, accountants and other advisory firms with investment information and access to millions of pages of original documentation on public companies in the UK, Europe and Asia.

EDGAR Online’s information and alerts, mined from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings by public companies and investors, will be accessible to Perfect Information’s international client base comprising all the major investment banks, corporate stockbrokers, law and accountancy firms in the UK, as well as many other financial institutions.

“Business information is now a global marketplace,” said Jonathan Scott-Barrett, chairman of Perfect Information. “Our business-to-business customers know and demand the EDGAR Online brand and the quality information they provide on over 15,000 US public companies.”

“The selection of EDGAR Online to provide U.S. financial and competitive information to Perfect Information’s outstanding international corporate clients represents a major step forward in the reach of EDGAR Online’s powerful information products and services. This alliance is an ideal platform to serve a rapidly growing European market for business, financial and competitive information based on United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings. In addition, it marks a major milestone in our B2B growth strategy,” said Susan Strausberg, CEO of EDGAR Online, Inc.”

Perfect Information clients will be able to retrieve queries or receive notices, at Web speed, of key information extracted from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission data about the people, companies and events that can affect the value of their investments or the competitive environment in which they work.

About Perfect Information

Perfect Information is based in London and provides online images of documents from companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange including Reports, Accounts and Company Circulars, London Stock Exchange Regulatory News Services Announcements, U.K. Private Company Returns, Reports and Accounts, European Reports and Accounts, Asia/Pacific Public Company Reports and Accounts, EASDAQ Quoted company information, and International Bond information. Users can search, print and view documents available in the database 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The service runs under Windows and can also be accessed by any computer connected to the Internet. Many clients of Perfect Information use its services on their corporate Intranets.

About EDGAR Online, Inc.

EDGAR Online, Inc. (http://www.edgar-online.com and http://www.freeedgar.com and http://www.ipo-express.com) is the leading business-to-business and Web-based provider of business, financial and competitive information derived from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission data. Additional services include value-added functions like IPO Express, a service that provides easy-to-use, detailed information on IPO filings, pricings and performance, EDGAR Online People (http://www.edgar-online.com/people), a service that allows users to conduct research on corporate executive and directors, and EDGAR Online Personal, which provides real-time alerts, and other personalized advanced searches of SEC data.

Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, with offices in Kirkland, Washington and New York City, EDGAR Online, Inc. has over 50 business-to-business clients including Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY), Standard & Poor’s (NYSE: MHP) and ILX Systems as well as strategic relationships with over 175 portal, business and financial information Web sites including Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS), Infoseek's GO Network (Nasdaq: SEEK), CNET's SNAP (Nasdaq: CNET), Alta Vista, a CMGI Company (Nasdaq: CMGI), PointCast, Infospace (Nasdaq: INSP), CBS MarketWatch (Nasdaq: MKTW), SmartMoney.com (NYSE: DJ), Business Wire, Track Data (Nasdaq: TRAC), and MSNBC Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and NBC/General Electric (NYSE: GE). For more information, please visit the Company’s Web site at http://www.edgar-online.com/news.

"Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance. These statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. EDGAR Online, Inc. disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Please refer to the documents filed by EDGAR Online, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to risks associated with changes in general economic and business conditions (including in the online business and financial information industry), actions of our competitors, the extent to which we are able to develop new services and markets for our services, the time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services, changes in our business strategies.

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