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January 23, 2002 CNET Channel Data to Provide the New Yahoo! Shopping Platform With Rich Product Content. SAN FRANCISCO, January 23, 2002 - CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET) today announced that its CNET Channel business unit has renewed and expanded its relationship with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) through which it provides DataSource™, CNET Channel's comprehensive technology product information service to the new Yahoo! Shopping network (http://shopping.yahoo.com). Underscoring the success of their initial relationship, this expanded contract enables consumers to use the timely, searchable and categorized technology product information across all of Yahoo!'s e-commerce sites, including Shopping, Auctions, Classifieds and Warehouse. "This renewed relationship reinforces the value CNET Channel brings to the companies with whom we do business, helping them focus on serving their users rather than on the time-consuming process of building and updating product databases," said Albert de Heer, president, CNET Channel. "With Transactive Product Data™ (TPD™) as the foundation of our offerings, CNET Channel has effectively produced the IT industry benchmark for product information. As a result, we've created a large and powerful community of buyers that rely on TPD to make their purchasing decisions." CNET Channel's DataSource is a product catalog maintenance service that transforms, on demand, the customer's product portfolio into TPD. With TPD, CNET Channel has defined within the industry how IT products are categorized, described and documented to deliver valuable information to help users make well informed buying decisions and purchases. Developed by CNET Channel, TPD is one of the world's most viewed product information by both offline and online IT channel players, reaching a vast community of over 150 million IT buyers worldwide through the companies with which it does business. "Technology products are constantly changing and today's buyers turn to the Internet to gather the latest information and compare products to make the smartest possible purchase decisions," said Rob Solomon, senior vice president, Yahoo! Commerce. "CNET Channel data has contributed to our Yahoo! Shopping site's success and popularity among shoppers, while enabling us to create cost efficiencies by outsourcing the enormous task of creating and updating such an expansive product database." About CNET Networks # # # Media Contact: Investor Relations Contact: |