Koop News from April 13, 1999:
Press Release
GO Network™ and DrKoop.com Strike
Exclusive $57 Million Cross-Network
Partnership
drkoop.com to Provide Health Content on the Go.com Health
Center, ABCNEWS.com, ESPN.com Training Room, and
Family.com
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - April 13, 1999 - Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq: SEEK), home
of GO Network (www.go.com), today announced an exclusive, three-year agreement
with drkoop.com, the leading Internet consumer health network led by former U.S.
Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop. The agreement, which provides a potential
revenue opportunity of more than $57 million and is contingent on certain financing
efforts by drkoop.com, will give users across multiple sites in the GO Network
reliable health information, news, shopping opportunities and interactive services.
With content and links at Go.com, ABCNEWS.com, ESPN.com, and Family.com,
GO Network users will benefit, beginning at the end of May 1999, from the decades
of medical experience represented by the drkoop.com site.
"Health and medicine are areas where the Internet offers people a tremendous level
of empowerment. By establishing this deep partnership with drkoop.com, GO
Network provides our users with trusted information and resources that enable GO
Network users to be more self-reliant," said Patrick Naughton, executive vice
president of products at Infoseek.
drkoop.com's comprehensive suite of personal health resources will be available on
four sites within the GO Network. dr.koop.com will be the exclusive health content
provider at the Go.com Health Center, the ESPN.com Training Room, and at
Family.com. In addition, drkoop.com will be the premier pharmacy at GO Shop, GO
Network's online shopping center, and the exclusive pharmacy at the GO Health
Center. drkoop.com will provide health insurance solutions and provide opportunities
for users to enroll in clinical trials from within GO Health. ABCNEWS.com will
welcome drkoop.com as a premier health content provider.
This integration across the GO Network makes reliable health information easier
than ever to access. Through the GO Network Health Center, and other sites in the
GO Network, drkoop.com offers GO Network users features on current developments
in the health field; health news and tips for users at any stage in life; an interactive
drugstore and insurance center where users can purchase right online; and a
community of people to connect with who have shared interests in health and
fitness. drkoop.com will develop unique content for GO Network users that cannot be
accessed anywhere else.
About drkoop.com
The award-winning drkoop.com, a leading Internet healthcare network, offers
outstanding reference sources for consumers through dedicated channels focused
on such topics as Children, Women, Men and Aging Healthy. The site also covers
more than 50 disease protocols and over 1500 health and wellness topics with
in-depth content from a variety of distinguished healthcare sources, including the
Dartmouth Medical School. The Personal Drugstore™ feature delivers consumers
the most extensive online drug interaction and prescription refill system. The portal
maintains more than 100 Interactive Community support groups and message
boards more than any other dedicated healthcare Web site. Consumers worldwide
can empower themselves to make better healthcare decisions by visiting
drkoop.com.
About Infoseek
Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq: SEEK), home of GO Network, provides a premier
global media network enriching people's daily lives by combining integrated Internet
services with leading consumer brands. In January 1999 Infoseek, in partnership with
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), launched GO Network, a major Internet
portal designed to connect people with the things they care about most. GO
Network users can have confidence in the content and quality of leading world
brands that represent the most popular activities on the Internet. Such brands
include ABCNEWS.com for news, ESPN.com for sports, Disney.com and
Family.com for kids and family, Infoseek for search, and Disney.com and ABC.com
for entertainment.
In addition, Infoseek licenses its Ultraseek Server search and navigation software to
companies for their own intranet, extranet and Internet sites. Infoseek is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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Infoseek, Ultraseek and the Infoseek logo shown are trademarks of Infoseek
Corporation, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward looking statements regarding Infoseek and GO
Network that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from those set forth in such statements as a result of a number of factors,
including but not limited to: contingencies in the Infoseek/dr.koop.com agreement,
which could affect the ability of Infoseek to realize the revenue opportunity identified;
Infoseek's ability to build the GO Network Health Center and integrate dr.koop.com
content into GO Network; user acceptance of dr.koop.com information and content;
the ability of Infoseek to successfully promote GO Network; the increasingly
competitive nature of the Internet market; and government regulations concerning
health care matters.
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