Business.com Provides Business Internet Search on CBS MarketWatch.com.

Business Editors

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2001

Addition of CBS MarketWatch.com Brings Business.com Network

Reach To More Than 12 Million Business-Focused Users

Business.com, the Internet's only search engine and directory focused exclusively on business, and MarketWatch.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKTW), the Internet's leading source of financial news and information, today announced a distribution agreement that makes Business.com's search results, including its Paid Listings and Featured Listings, immediately available at CBS MarketWatch.com.

The integrated Business.com search results, which are live today, are available throughout CBS MarketWatch.com and give users access to more than 400,000 business-focused listings across 25,000 categories. In addition, Business.com will provide its self-service listings sales platform to MarketWatch.com and will share the listings revenue generated from the site.

Said Jake Winebaum, Founder and CEO, Business.com, "The addition of CBS MarketWatch.com to the Business.com Network is an important milestone in our strategy to partner with the world's leading business Web sites. Our growing reach, combined with our exclusive focus on business and our Paid Listings and Featured Listings programs, gives business marketers an unprecedented opportunity to reach a high-quality, at-work audience."

Added Bill Bishop, EVP and General Manager, MarketWatch.com, "Business.com's exclusive focus on business makes it a great partner for us, and adding the Business.com search results throughout CBS MarketWatch.com is a significant enhancement to our user experience."

About MarketWatch.com, Inc.

MarketWatch.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKTW), a leading financial media company, is the number one financial news and information source on the Internet. Founded in 1997, MarketWatch.com operates three Web sites: cbs.marketwatch.com, bigcharts.com, and U.K.-based ftmarketwatch.com. In addition to offering top-notch financial reporting and investment tools on its Web sites, MarketWatch.com licenses a wide array of content and tools in custom-designed formats for brokerages and other online businesses. The Company also produces the syndicated CBS MarketWatch Weekend program, airs financial reports over CBS Network Television, and provides updates every 30 minutes on the MarketWatch.com Radio Network. Editorial content from cbs.marketwatch.com is distributed in major newspapers and wireless networks.

About Business.com

Business.com is the Web's only search engine and directory service focused exclusively on business, and its mission is to help business professionals find exactly what they're looking for. Developed by a team of industry experts and library scientists, Business.com's home page organizes the world of business into 26 major industry categories, with more than 400,000 listings within 25,000 industry, product and service subcategories. Business.com's strategic investors and partners include Cahners Business Information, a member of the Reed Elsevier plc group (NYSE:RUK and ENL); Primedia Business Magazines and Media, a subsidiary of Primedia Incorporated (NYSE:PRM); The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP); and The Financial Times Group, a division of Pearson plc (NYSE:PSO; LSE:PSON).