WorldPages/Web YP, Inc. Announces Alliance With Microsoft Corporation; Microsoft Adds WorldPages.com to Internet Explorer 5.0.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999--

WorldPages/WebYP, Inc., a leading Internet white and yellow pages directory (http://www.worldpages.com) today announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation (http://home.microsoft.com) which integrates the WorldPages Directory into the Microsoft Internet Explorer search capabilities.

The directory will enable users of Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.0 as well as older versions 3.0 and 4.0 to access WorldPages' search for business, people, and government listings throughout the U.S. and around the world.

WorldPages.com is the yellow and white pages online directory, which PC Magazine rates among its Top 100 Web Sites and the Wall Street Journal ranks as one of its "most useful web sites for business users." The comprehensive, user-friendly electronic directory lets you search across town or across the world for anyone, any place, any thing, quickly and easily.

WorldPages allows fast and easy access to all 117 million U.S. and Canadian white and yellow pages listings (including mapping,) toll-free number, 9 million email addresses, 30 million URLs and links to over 350 directories worldwide. "We are very pleased to extend our long partnership with Microsoft," said Rick Klein, president of WorldPages.

"Internet Explorer 5.0's advanced options offer an excellent place for consumers to start their Web sessions. The easy navigation, personalized content, along with the fast and friendly interface, make Internet Explorer 5.0 easy to use. The opportunity for us to provide Microsoft Internet Explorer users with our quality directory content is a great win for us. Being chosen by Microsoft as a content provider for their first class portal is another validation of our quality service."

"We believe WorldPages' value added directory services will work particularly well for Internet Explorer, producing valuable content for their viewers," Dick Reid, CEO added. "WorldPages offers Internet Explorer users access to information and web sites of more than 150,000 small businesses across North America."

About WorldPages and Web YP, Inc.

Among the Yellow Pages Directory reseller sales partners working with Web YP, Inc./WorldPages is Great Western Directories, a property of Advanced Communications Group, Inc. (ACG (NYSE:ADG)). Advanced Communications Group, Inc. announced this week that its board of directors has approved a letter of intent to acquire the outstanding stock of Web YP, Inc. (d/b/a WorldPages.com).

Also included in the transaction are related companies YPtel Corporation, also a Yellow Pages Directory publisher (d/b/a Pacific Coast Publishing/Regional Telephone Directories), a reseller of WorldPages products, and Big Stuff, Inc., the web site production arm of Web YP, Inc./WorldPages.com).

WorldPages.com is the yellow and white pages, which PC Magazine rates among its Top 100 Web Sites and the Wall Street Journal ranks as one of its "most useful web sites for business users." Web YP Inc., the parent of WorldPages (http://www.worldpages.com) is the leading provider of Web-based advertising for small businesses in the U.S. and Canada. The company has over 85 North American sales affiliates and 150,000 advertisers.

WorldPages' services are featured by Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), NEC/Packard-Bell (NYSE:NIPNY), Digital Equipment (NYSE:DEC) ,the Etak division of Sony (NYSE:SNE), TMP Worldwide (Nasdaq:TMPW), ZDNet (Nasdaq:ZD), and Lycos (Nasdaq:LCOS) The company's sales partnerships include CDPS Group, Advanced Communications Group (NYSE:ADG), Southern Directories, and TDI. Web YP, Inc. is based in San Francisco.