GO.com's ABCNEWS.com Closes Last Year of the Century With Heightened Integration With ABC News and Looks Forward to the New Year With Expanded Millennium Coverage.

Business/Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 29, 1999

GO.com's (NYSE:GO) ABCNEWS.com, the fastest growing news site on the Web, is marking the end of 1999 by reflecting on some of its accomplishments this past year. Over the course of the year, ABCNEWS.com has experienced a 15% increase in reach according to Media Metrix (Nov. 1999 report). In addition, the site has experienced significant milestones and introduced new, innovative content.

ABCNEWS.com has introduced several new, pioneering features involving ABC News' Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings, "Nightline" and "World News Now."

"In 1999, ABCNEWS.com introduced ambitious, innovative features that made our site even more useful and valuable to our users," said Bernard Gershon, vice president and general manager, ABCNEWS.com. "Our new features including [e-mail] and Peter Jennings' daily e-mail to users prove ABCNEWS.com is blazing a path in online news and is setting the bar by which others will be measured."

Continuing its heightened integration with ABC News, ABCNEWS.com will offer completely interactive coverage of the festivities around the world on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. An ABCNEWS.com correspondent will interview party guests and offer TV viewers a complementary view of ABC's millennium coverage that will take place from Times Square Studios at 1500 Broadway in New York. Viewers also will be able to ask questions of Peter Jennings, many of which he will answer on air. In addition, ABC News reporters stationed around the world will participate in live chats with viewers and users, offering insights as to how the millennium is being celebrated around the world.

Highlights for 1999 include:

Traffic:

-- ABCNEWS.com has grown 15% in reach in the past year (source:

October Media Metrix report).

-- ABCNEWS.com has grown 35% in unique pages per user per month and

52% in minutes per user per month over the last 12 months

(source: October Media Metrix report).

-- ABCNEWS.com experienced record traffic days while covering the

JFK, Jr. plane crash. July 21, 1999, the day JFK, Jr.'s death is

confirmed and body is recovered, is the second-highest trafficked

day ever for the site with nearly 1.3 million users and nearly 10

million impressions. In addition, on Saturday, July 17 - Sunday,

July 18, 1999 the site received nearly five million impressions

and nearly 800,000 users, making it the second-highest trafficked

weekend for ABCNEWS.com (internal log files).

-- ABCNEWS.com experienced record-traffic day following the

Littleton, Colo. school shooting. 1.1 million users generate

seven million impressions (Internal log files).

-- ABCNEWS.com experienced traffic increases on both Wednesday,

March 3, and Thursday, March 4, the day of and day immediately

following Barbara Walters' interview with Monica Lewinsky on ABC

News' 20/20. Over the course of the two days, more than

one-and-a-half million unique users generating more than eight

million impressions (page views) come to ABCNEWS.com (Internal

log files).

Milestones:

-- ABCNEWS.com and ABC News' Sam Donaldson launched

[e-mail], the first regularly scheduled, live,

television-quality produced Web-cast offered by a broadcast

network. [e-mail] is streamed live at 300k,

making it ABC News' first broadband programming. Mr. Donaldson

makes this a truly interactive experience by incorporating his

own questions with audience questions into interviews with

guests.

-- ABCNEWS.com introduced a daily e-mail from Peter Jennings

describing what he and his producers have deemed the most

important, relevant news stories of the day and how that has

developed. Mr. Jennings is the first network news anchor to

provide daily insight into the day's news.

-- ABCNEWS.com kicked off its "2000 Vote" coverage, featuring an

unprecedented integration between ABCNEWS.com and ABC News. In

addition to its distinguished "Political Nation" staff,

ABCNEWS.com will work in tandem with the ABC News political unit,

the polling unit, reporters, correspondents, and analysts to

provide unparalleled coverage of this year's political contests

and issues.

-- ABCNEWS.com launched a searchable video feature enabling users to

find video clips on demand from premier ABC News programming,

including "World News Tonight" and "Nightline".

-- ABCNEWS.com sent its own reporter to Macedonia to cover the

refugee story in the Balkans. It is the first time ABCNEWS.com

sends a reporter into a hostile area.

ABCNEWS.com is part of GO.com (NYSE:GO), which was created as part of a merger between Infoseek Corporation and The Walt Disney Company's online unit, Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG). GO.com oversees many of the Web's most popular sites and services, including the GO Network portal, ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, ESPN.com, NFL.com, NBA.com, NASCAR Online, ESPNstore.com, ABCSports.com, Family.com and Mr. Showbiz.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties, including those relating to ABCNEWS.com, strategic changes in GO.com's operations and factors beyond the Company's control, including technological, regulatory and economic developments. Any of these factors may materially adversely affect the development of Internet-related businesses generally or the business, financial condition or results of operations of GO.com specifically. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from the results indicated or implied in this release. More information about GO.com (NYSE:GO) and the risks arising from an investment in GO.com is contained in the most recent filings of The Walt Disney Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.