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TOPCLiCK To Add New High Profile Internet Retailers to Its Internet Center
Business/Technology Editors
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1999--
Topclick (OTC Bulletin Board:TOCK) TOPCLiCK International Inc. (OTC
BB:TOCK) today announced that it has added an additional twenty high
profile Internet retailers to the development of it's e-commerce
environment in preparation for the launch of the TOPCliCK Marketplace
- a packaged e-commerce shopping environment which will be offered on
the company's homepage.
Some of these new and better-known Internet retail brands include
Ameritech, Travelocity, Barnesandnoble.com, Priceline, and Reel.com,
which have been made available through the affiliate network Be Free,
Inc.
Last month the company announced it's membership of the LinkShare
Affiliate Network, to integrate e-commerce offerings from
1-800-Flowers, Borders.com, Cyberian Outpost, Fashionmall,
Florist.com, K-Tel, American Eagle Outfitters, and AudioBook.
"We have launched a hiring program for new staff to enhance the
e-commerce facilities that we can present to our customers and to
fully leverage our e-commerce revenue potential. Over the next 12
weeks our development team will be working on a number of enhancements
to our Top of the Web Internet Center, including the introduction of
the TOPCliCK Marketplace. Our customers will find these changes to be
consistent with our simple, easy-to-use approach to accessing
information, products and services on the world wide web." 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! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Excite (NASDAQ:XCIT), Lycos
(NASDAQ:LCOS), GoTo.com, Go Network, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Northern
Light, Looksmart, Infoseek (NASDAQ:SEEK), Snap!, Webcrawler, AOL
Netfind (NASDAQ: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 30,000 top sites over the next 8 months.
Be Free, Inc. is the leading provider of on-line affiliate
network technology and services. Be Free's branded affiliate networks
help on-line retailers drive revenue by selling products "in context"
on affiliate web sites with more than 76,000 affiliates in their
networks. The company's product offering includes the BFAST(TM)
affiliate network technology and the BFIT(TM) targeted advertising
delivery. Founded in 1996, Be Free has offices in Pittsburgh, Penn.,
and Marlborough, Mass. For more information, visit Be Free's Web site
at befree.com.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Chris Lewis, President and CEO, TOPCLiCK International Inc.
'Safe Harbor' statement under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements
that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not
limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product
demand and market acceptance, new product development, reliance on key
strategic alliances, availability of raw materials, the regulatory
environment, fluctuations in operating results and other risks
detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
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CONTACT: Topclick International Inc.
Investor Relations Department,
800/844-TOCK (8625)
E-mail invest@topclick.com
Website: www.topclick.com
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