Press Release on Investment Company, Digital Bridge
  Note: M&A West is a significant partner and owns a significant stake in Digital Bridge
  COMTEX) B: Digital Bridge Beta Launches Ad Server Through Partner SearchHound.com; First 100 Beta Users Receive One Free Month with No Set Up Fees 
  PHOENIX, Oct 2, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Digital Bridge, Inc. (OTCBB:DGBI), a global eBusiness Builder, announced today the Beta launch of the Company's Ad Server product through channel partner SearchHound.com, Inc. (OTCBB:SRHN). 
  The Digital Bridge Ad Server provides a low cost, easy maintenance, and centralized solution for online ad serving, management, reporting, and tracking services for web sites of all sizes. 
  Digital Bridge is offering a custom program, exclusive to SearchHound.com members, featuring special pricing starting at $50 with a $50 set up fee. The first month's service is free for the first 100 Beta users and the set up fee will be waived. For more complete product and pricing information, please visit searchhound.digitalbridge.com. 
  Seth Pollack, Executive Vice President of Digital Bridge, stated, "We are pleased to offer our ad serving technology to the 600,000 webmaster members of SearchHound.com. The Digital Bridge Ad Server is among the first in what will be  an aggressive product release schedule over the next few quarters." 
  Brad Cohen, SearchHound's Vice President of Corporate Development stated, "The Beta launching of the Digital Bridge Ad Server through SearchHound.com provides our users with an excellent and cost efficient way of managing online advertising, regardless of volume. We are looking forward to the positive response this offering should bring." 
  About Digital Bridge 
  Digital Bridge is a global "eBusiness Builder," which provides Internet enterprise solutions through a suite of applications and professional services, empowering business from "concept to click". For both emerging and expanding companies, Digital Bridge provides a cost effective technology service through an equity participation plan entitled Venture Technology. Our Venture Technology portfolio partners are supplied with human capital in the form of technology resources, intellectual properties and infrastructure. 
  Digital Bridge was a spin-off from M&A West Inc. (OTC:MAWI) which remains as a significant shareholder and partner. Digital Bridge, Inc.'s corporate headquarters are in Phoenix, Arizona, with offices in Burlingame, California. The Company's wholly owned subsidiary, OTVnet, is headquartered in San Diego, California. 
  Additional information can be found at www.digitalbridge.com. 
  About SearchHound.com 
  SearchHound.com brings together two dynamic products that combine a savvy B2C marketer of search products and Webmaster tools with state-of-the-art B2B real-time meta-search technology to create a formidable new player in the search engine eCommerce space. The site, powered by its SoloSearch technology, allows users to be frequently updated with new information, creating a more sophisticated and comprehensive breed of search engine. SearchHound.com's search engine portal and exclusive technology that can be licensed also adds enticing tools, specific demographic targeting, and a variety of revenue opportunities to the current search engine in portal and vortal markets. The combined site focuses on providing a destination for Webmasters and websites, providing tools, products, and services. The site maintains a targeted email community of 600,000 Webmasters. 
  Additional information can be found at www.searchhound.com. 
  Statements regarding financial matters in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company intends that such statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, the anticipated stock dividends and all other forward-looking statements be subject to the safe  harbors created thereby. Since these statements (future operational results and sales) involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time,  the Company's actual results may differ materially from expected results. 
  CONTACT: Digital Bridge  Seth Pollack, 623/773-3644  or  SearchHound.com  Becky Kern, 914/753-2444 (Media)  Dave Mullikin, 816/960-3777 (Investor) 
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