Cars.com Becomes Exclusive Used Vehicle Listings Provider On the GO Network Automotive Center.CHICAGO and SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999-- Cars.com Expands Online Distribution Campaign Through Agreement With Infoseek Cars.com, the Internet's fastest growing automotive Web site, announced today a partnership with Infoseek (Nasdaq: SEEK), home of GO Network(TM) (www.go.com), as the exclusive provider for used vehicle listings on GO Autos, the new Automotive Center on GO Network. Visitors of GO Network can now search a database of hundreds of thousands of used car listings as well as find used cars in their local area by clicking on the direct link to the cars.com Web site. The cars.com agreement with Infoseek is part of its multi-million dollar online distribution strategy that includes agreements with several major Web portals See portal. and national Web sites. "Our agreement with Infoseek is a key strategic move to provide consumers with one more easy way to find the valuable automotive information at cars.com," said Mitch Golub, general manager of cars.com. "With GO Network we are building a leading Internet destination that will benefit used car shoppers and our car dealer advertisers." GO Network was launched in January 1999 by Infoseek in partnership with The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DIS). It is the online home for leading brands such as 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 ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. .com for entertainment. The announcement coincides with a new multi-million dollar, four-month advertising campaign by GO Network to demystify de·mys·ti·fy tr.v. de·mys·ti·fied, de·mys·ti·fy·ing, de·mys·ti·fies To make less mysterious; clarify: an autobiography that demystified the career of an eminent physician. Internet benefits for consumers. The ad campaign, which debuted on May 24th, is the largest television campaign ever mounted by an Internet company in a similar time period. "Buying or selling a used vehicle can be an overwhelming and time consuming process for many consumers. GO Network plans to ease the process for people by providing an easy-to-use, comprehensive, one-stop solution for automotive information and services," said Patrick Naughton, Infoseek's executive vice president of products. "This agreement with cars.com further enhances GO Network's ability to provide consumers with the quality information they seek and demand." Cars.com also will provide valuable automotive-related content to GO Network through its exclusive online relationship with National Public Radio's "CAR TALK(R)." GO Network will feature useful CAR TALK (cartalk.cars.com) content later this summer, such as Click and Clack's car advice column, the Mechan-X-Files database of great mechanics, the Car Talk Lemon Law lemon law n. statutes adopted in some states to make it easier for a buyer of a new vehicle to sue for damages or replacement if the dealer or manufacturer cannot make it run properly after a reasonable number of attempts to fix the car. primer prim·er n. A segment of DNA or RNA that is complementary to a given DNA sequence and that is needed to initiate replication by DNA polymerase. , and results of Car Talk's extensive online reliability survey. The added content will provide consumers with additional automotive advice as well as entertainment value for car enthusiasts of all levels. About Infoseek Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq: SEEK) is the home of GO Network, a premier global media network enriching people's daily The People's Daily (Chinese: 人民日报; Pinyin: Rénmín Rìbào), a daily newspaper, is the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published worldwide lives by combining integrated Internet services with leading consumer brands. Now one of the top five sites on the Internet, GO Network was launched in January 1999 by Infoseek, in partnership with The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), and is the online home of leading world brands such as 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. For more information about Infoseek, please visit Infoseek's corporate Internet home page at info.infoseek.com or to request additional information about Infoseek, call our Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Request Line at 408/543-6960 or visit our new investor relations web site at www.ir-infoseek.com. 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. About cars.com Cars.com, at http://cars.com, simplifies car shopping on the Internet. Affiliated with more than 130 local newspapers, the e-commerce publisher currently has inventory in 55 markets, including 25 of the top 30 markets in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Cars.com, the only automotive web site to provide daily updates of dealer inventories, allows consumers to search vehicle listings by zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , vehicle make, model and year. In addition to vehicle pricing, cars.com provides consumers with trusted automotive information, including rich editorial content pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to real life issues such as how to purchase a vehicle and tips for parents of young drivers. The site also provides consumers with tools such as an auto loan calculator, news and reports on new and used vehicles, more than 3,500 independent automotive reviews (1983-present), vehicle performance data, and vehicle recall information. Cars.com is a division of Classified Ventures, based in Chicago, Ill. About Classified Ventures Based in Chicago, Classified Ventures provides nationally branded online services for the emerging e-commerce opportunities in the classified advertising marketplace that build upon the capabilities and local expertise of a national affiliate network An affiliate network acts as an intermediary between publishers (affiliates) and (merchant) affiliate programs. It allows publishers to find affiliate programs, which are suitable for their website and it helps websites offering affiliate programs reach its target audience. . The company currently operates the apartments web site Apartments.com, www.apartments.com, the auction web site Auction Universe, www.auctionuniverse.com, the automotive web site cars.com, www.cars.com, the moving information site MovingCenter, www.movingcenter.com, and the real estate web site NewHomeNetwork, www.newhomenetwork.com. Classified Ventures will also launch HomeHunter(TM), a resale real estate service, in the second quarter of 1999. Classified Ventures, Inc. was formed by eight leading media companies: Central Newspapers, Inc.; Gannett Co.; Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder (IPA: /ˈrɪdɚ/) was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. ; The McClatchy Company; The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Company; The Times Mirror Company; Tribune Company The Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Hartford Courant and The Washington Post Company. For more information on Classified Ventures, please contact Mark Smith at (312) 396-9718, mark_smith@pr21.com or visit the Classified Ventures Web site at www.classifiedventures.com. 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. |
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