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Online leaders unite LookSmart and CitySearch join forces to bring Australian customers and businesses together Sydney 14 March 2000; LookSmart (ASX: LOK), a world leader in Internet search infrastructure and CitySearch Australia (citysearch.com.au), the country’s premier online leisure and lifestyle guides, and interactive business directories, have today launched a new business directory on www.looksmart.com.au. The business directory is an essential online resource for Internet users, enabling them to access information about hundreds of thousands of businesses listed across Australia. With both LookSmart and CitySearch focused on providing Australian Internet users with quality, locally relevant content, the business directory represents the most comprehensive database of local services, products and businesses currently available online.
Tim Pethick, CEO of LookSmart Australia said, "There is a real synergy between LookSmart and CitySearch's business focus which makes it easy to enter into a partnership such as this and I believe this alliance will enable a strengthening and deepening of both companies content and user base. "For LookSmart users, the interactive directory not only enables them to find business details quickly and easily, but also to communicate with, and source prices and services directly from, the thousands of businesses that have CitySearch Websites." Rob Mallick, Managing Director, CitySearch Australia said, "Partnering with LookSmart, one of the world's most popular search and directory service, provides a truly global distribution channel for the hundreds of thousands of Australian businesses that have a CitySearch Website or are listed on www.citysearch.com.au. "CitySearch provides small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with Internet solutions tailored to their business needs, including tools to enable easy interaction with potential customers. It’s exciting to be able to provide our customers with additional value and opportunities to increase their business." The LookSmart business directory is located at www.looksmart.com.au. About LookSmart LookSmart (ASX: LOK), a global leader of Internet search infrastructure and navigation, creates and maintains the largest editorially reviewed directory of content on the World Wide Web. The company's uniquely categorised directory of over 1.5 million URLs is distributed through multiple channels, including a global network of ISPs, major Web sites and portals such as Microsoft, British Telecom, Excite@Home and AltaVista. LookSmart has launched sites in Australia, the US, the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore and New Zealand. LookSmart Australia has won the Most Entrepreneurial category in the 1999 Australian Internet Awards, the 1999 BRW/Alcatel Business Award for Information Technology & Telecommunications and the Australian Venture Capital Association Limited Chairman's Award for Most Outstanding Contribution. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is located at: www.looksmart.com and www.looksmart.com.au
About CitySearch Australia (citysearch.com.au) CitySearch Australia provides the ultimate, online leisure and lifestyle guide, together with interactive business directories. CitySearch offers residents and tourists a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute resource to find the best places to eat, shop, relax and party. Plus the ability to search, communicate and transact with thousands of local businesses. In addition, CitySearch provides tailored Internet solutions for small and medium sized businesses, including Web site design, hosting, advertising and listings. CitySearch Australia is a business within f2, Fairfax Interactive Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of John Fairfax Holdings Limited [ASX: FXJ]. The CitySearch directory is located at www.citysearch.com.au CitySearch is also a member of the successful world wide Ticketmaster Online CitySearch, Inc. network. For more information; Simone
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Note to editors John Fairfax Holdings Limited [ASX:FXJ] is Australia’s leading publishing group. Its newspapers and magazines include The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sun-Herald, and BRW. In addition, the Company publishes financial and consumer magazines, and provides online services. In 1999, the Company had revenues of over $1.1 billion. f2 Limited, Fairfax Interactive Network, is a wholly owned subsidiary of John Fairfax Holdings Limited [ASX:FXJ]. It is Australia’s leading content provider on the Internet with around 1.6 million page views per day across a network of sites which include:
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