MIAMI BEACH, FL, October 3, 2000

Quickbrowse.com, the inventor of metabrowsing, today announced the addition of Jeff Herbst to its board of advisers. Herbst currently serves as executive vice president of corporate development & strategy for Alterego Networks, a wireless infrastructure company (www.aego.com). Immediately prior to joining Alterego, Herbst served as worldwide head of corporate and business development for Altavista.com (www.altavista.com), where he developed extensive experience and contacts within the Internet industry.

Jeff Herbst

"Jeff's prior experience with AltaVista, and his current role at Alterego will prove invaluable to our efforts. Jeff will play an important role in helping Quickbrowse grow to the next level," said Quickbrowse founder Marc Fest. "We are very happy to have Jeff onboard. Jeff lending us his name, connections and insights is another important step forward for us as we expand our role in the new metabrowsing / content aggregation industry." "I've spent a substantial amount of time and effort both thinking about and evaluating companies and opportunities in the burgeoning metabrowsing space" said Herbst. "Of all the metabrowsing solutions I have looked at, Quickbrowse is by far the simplest and most elegant. I'm thrilled to be part of the Quickbrowse Advisory board, and I'm looking forward to helping bring this next generation solution for personalized content delivery to the masses."

At AltaVista, Herbst was the WORLDWIDE vice president of business and corporate development, overseeing all short- and long-term business development opportunities, including strategic partnerships and investments, mergers and acquisitions of complementary technologies, and all content and distribution relationships.

Prior to joining AltaVista, Herbst was a partner with the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he represented Internet and other high technology growth companies in a variety of business, technology and securities matters. Herbst received a BS in computer science from Brown University and a law degree from Stanford Law School.

Quickbrowse's' proprietary software, intuitive tools and easy-to-use interfaces, offer web publishers and end users alike innovative opportunities to manage and uniquely present web-based information.
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