Lycos to Distribute IPO, Financial and SEC Data from EDGAR Online, Inc.

SOUTH NORWALK, CT, October 5, 1999—EDGAR Online announced today that Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS), the fastest growing Internet portal and the world’s largest online community, will distribute EDGAR Online data via a co-branded destination at www.edgar-online.lycos.com/lycos/business featuring its IPO, financial and SEC data. EDGAR Online (Nasdaq: EDGR) is a leading provider of business, financial and competitive intelligence information derived from SEC filings.

The co-branded site, developed by EDGAR Online, is easily accessible from the Lycos.com Business Web Guide and gives users quick access to EDGAR Online’s IPO Express service, financials on over 15,000 public companies and a complete database of SEC reports including the company’s EDGAR Online People service and quick-view “Glimpse” product.

“As the Lycos community continues to grow, we aim to offer our users the fastest and easiest access to content they need to research companies or to make their best investing decisions,” said Mark Stoever, director of product management for Lycos. “The EDGAR Online content is an extensive resource for IPO, financial and SEC data and gives our users a branded, trusted source for this information.”

“Lycos is an important new distributor for our data. Now with the syndication of IPO Express, companies such as Lycos can offer their customers a comprehensive and easy to use resource for IPO information,” said Jay Sears, vice president of marketing and business development for EDGAR Online.

About EDGAR Online, Inc.

EDGAR Online, Inc. (http://www.edgar-online.com) is a 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 (http://www.ipo-express.com), 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, EDGAR Online Personal, which provides real-time Web and email based alerting, and other personalized advanced searches of SEC data.

Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, EDGAR Online, Inc. has strategic relationships with a variety of portal, business and financial information Web sites. For more information, please visit the Company’s Web site at http://www.edgar-online.com/news.

About Lycos, Inc.

Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching one out of every two Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites that attracts a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web navigation resources, homepage building and other Web community services and a comprehensive shopping center. The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Suck.com, MyTime, Sonique and Quote.com. Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com), “Your Personal Internet Guide,” is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.

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Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

“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. and Lycos, Inc. disclaim 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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