IPO Express by EDGAR Online Receives AIIP Technology Award

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Business and Strategy Development
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SOUTH NORWALK, CT, September 21, 2000 -- EDGAR Online, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: EDGR) IPO Express service (www.ipo-express.com) was awarded The Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) Annual Technology Award at the Online World conference in San Diego, California.

"We were impressed by the intuitive, powerful and free access to a very high quality, well indexed database," said Peggy Carr, president of AIIP. The AIIP Technology Award goes to the new product that best helps information professionals with their day-to-day operations in locating, analyzing and organizing information. A judging committee selected IPO Express from a field of fourteen nominees.

"This AIIP Award for IPO Express is welcome recognition," said Susan Strausberg, CEO of EDGAR Online, Inc., creator of IPO Express. "that EDGAR Online is succeeding in becoming a primary source of real-time company information for information professionals."

About AIIP

AIIP - The Association of Independent Information Professionals was founded in 1987. Membership today exceeds 700 individuals in 20 countries, and consists of owners of information related businesses. AIIP members offer expert online, Internet and manual research; provide document delivery, database design, library support and consulting services; and are writers and editors. Members provide services to a wide variety of clients, ranging from small companies to the Fortune 500.

About EDGAR Online, Inc.

EDGAR Online, Inc. 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. Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, with offices in Kirkland, Washington and New York City. The company sells to the corporate market and Internet portals as well as running three destination Web sites (http://www.edgar-online.com, htttp://www.freeedgar.com, http://www.ipo-express.com). 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, risks in connection with our recent acquisition and other acquisitions which we may consummate in the future, the time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services and changes in our business strategies. EDGAR is a federally registered trademark of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). EDGAR Online is a product of EDGAR Online, Inc., and is neither approved by, nor affiliated with the SEC.

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