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GO Network Launches Online Company Store to Give You GO Network Gear and Other Things That Go With You.


SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1999--

Now Users Can Sport the Newest Brand on the Web Scene with

GO Network Shirts, Watches, Commuter Mugs and More Through

an Easy-to-Use Online Store

Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq:SEEK), home of GO Network, today announced the grand opening of the GO Network Company Store, available on the Go.com home page at www.go.com, to meet the demand of consumers looking to buy GO Network branded merchandise including T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, watches, commuter mugs, and pens.

With a few clicks of the mouse, users can preview and purchase items that are then delivered within two days. A feedback button lets users ask questions, check order status, and suggest improvements.

"People love to identify with brands that connect with them, and things like T-shirts and hats are a fun way to do it. The items we offer in the GO Network Company Store fit with the lifestyle of our users. Some items have been in such high demand we had to increase inventory over our already aggressive projections," said Jim Morouse, vice president of marketing at Infoseek.

To order items, consumers can simply click on the item they wish to purchase, click "add to cart", and the GO Network Company Store tallies TALLIES, evidence. The parts of a piece of wood out in two, which persons use to denote the quantity of goods supplied by one to the other. Poth. Obl. pt. 4, c. 1, art. 2, Sec. 7.  orders as they go. When done shopping, users simply input name, shipping address, credit card number, and their own password, and the order is complete. The next time a customer places an order, the GO Network Company Store automatically uses the bill to and ship to information, based on the user's password, for easy ordering.

From things that GO in your car, to things that GO on your head, to things that tell you it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a  to GO, GO Network Gear is expected to make a splash with the more than 12 million registered users and 22 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions.  currently using GO Network.

The GO Network Company Store guarantees 100 percent customer satisfaction and ensures user information, such as credit card numbers, cannot be read or intercepted in transit, using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data.  security protocol, the industry standard for security and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. .

The GO Company Store can be accessed on http://www.go.com, through the About GO section at http://info.go.com/doc/aboutGO.html, and through the About Infoseek section at http://info.infoseek.com/.

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. In January 1999 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), launched GO Network ( http://www.go.com ), one of the top five sites on the Internet and 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 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.

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.

Note to Editors: 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. GO Network is a trademark of The Walt Disney Company.
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