fwiw, news:
TOPCLiCK to Add Dell Computers andAmazon.com to E-Commerce Program
June 9, 1999 11:05 AM
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1999-- TOPCLiCK International Inc. TOCK today announced that it has added Dell and Amazon.com to its line-up of top internet retailers that will soon populate the TOPCLiCK Marketplace. Last week the company announced the addition of twenty high profile retailers to the development of its e-commerce environment.
TOPCLiCK has joined the Dell affiliate program through its participation in the LinkShare Network. Recently the company joined the Amazon.com Associates Program, the leading-selling program on the internet, with more than 260,000 members.
The Company is currently in discussions with a number of leading internet retailers that it plans to include in the TOPCLiCK Marketplace -- a packaged e-commerce shopping environment, which will be offered on the company's homepage.
"The inclusion of Dell and Amazon.com into the TOPCLiCK Marketplace underscores our commitment to ensure the best of the web is always at our customers fingertips. Soon our customers will be able to buy books from Amazon.com, and computers from Dell by simply accessing them from a number of interest areas found on the TOPCLiCK website -- www.topclick.com. We are hiring a team of people to assist in the development of our e-commerce revenue model, and will continue to keep our communities of interest up to date on this exciting initiative which we are undertaking," said Jason Wilkes, Vice President of Business Development.
TOPCLiCK (www.topclick.com) provides Internet customers with a fast, simple one-stop information search interface to the Top Internet Information Directories, Search Engines and Meta-Search Engines. TOPCliCK's features include "central keyword searching." This feature provides one-stop keyword searching across the Top Portal sites including Yahoo! YHOO , Excite XCIT , Lycos LCOS , GoTo.com, Go Network, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Northern Light, Looksmart, Infoseek SEEK , Snap!, Webcrawler, AOL Netfind AOL , HotBot and Alta Vista. Collectively, these Brands account for a large percentage of the search traffic on the Internet today.
The site also features Top Internet Brands across thousands of information subjects, organized into 51 easy-to-use information categories. TOPCLiCK currently houses over 8000 Top Sites and plans to grow to 50,000 top sites over the next 8 months.
Dell is ranked No. 78 among the Fortune 500 companies and No. 363 in the Fortune Global 500. Dell Computer Corporation is the world's leading direct computer systems company, based on revenues of $18.2 billion for the past four quarters. Dell designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained through its toll-free number 800/388-8542 or by accessing the Dell World Wide Web site at www.dell.com.
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On behalf of the Board of Directors
Chris Lewis, President and CEO, TOPCLiCK International Inc.
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