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yourDictionary.com Receives Coveted CIO Web Business 50 Award

Yahoo Internet Life also Selects YDC for its 100 Best Sites for 2002

DANVILLE, CALIFORNIA, January 7, 2002. yourDictionary.com (YDC), the premier global language portal, has been awarded the prestigious CIO Web Business 50 Award from IDG's CIO magazine. The 5th annual CIO Web Business 50 Award honors the 50 most outstanding web sites across business, government and non-profit platforms. In a related development, Yahoo Internet Life has also selected yourDictionary.com for its 100 Best Sites for 2002.

"The world wide web is a crowded marketplace, but winners of the CIO Web Business 50 Award are a step above other sites," says Abbie Lundberg, editor-in-chief, CIO magazine. "Winning sites have combined excellence in design and functionality to create a top notch experience for their consumers, business partners and other users."

"We are quite pleased to have been selected for this honor," said Paul JJ Payack, yourDictionary.com's President and CEO. "We view The CIO Web Business 50 Award as recognition of the value YDC provides its worldwide customers in both language resources and the value-added services we offer, such as brand naming, translation, and localization."

Winners of the CIO Web Business 50 Award are selected by a team of CIO editors, writers and web site managers who review, evaluate and vote on the final 50 honorees.

Winning sites were judged on a number of criteria including design, ease of user navigation, special features and functionality, and business value, shown by a site's ability to survive and even thrive in a difficult business climate. CIO Web Business 50 Award judges also looked at innovation, honoring sites creating new and ingenious ways to service their target market, customers or their own organization.

Complete coverage of The CIO Web Business 50 Award is featured in CIO magazine and at http://www.cio.com/archive/120101/winners.html.

About CIO Magazine

CIO magazine (launched in 1987) is published by CXO Media Inc. CXO Media serves CIOs, CEOs, CFOs, COOs and other corporate officers who use technology to prosper in this new era of business. The company strives to enhance partnerships between C-level executives, as well as create opportunities for information technology (IT) and consumer marketers to reach them. In addition to publishing CIO, CXO Media produces www.cio.com, The CIO Insider, Darwin magazine and www.darwinmagazine.com, as well as CIO and Darwin Executive Programs, a series of conferences that provide educational and networking opportunities for corporate and government leaders. Company information is available at www.idg.com.

About yourDictionary.com

Founded in 1995, yourDictionary.com (YDC) is the world's most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the World Wide Web with over 2300 dictionaries and grammars in more than 280 languages. YDC has been recognized by organizations the world over, most recently a CIO Web 50 Company and Yahoo Internet Life as one of its 100 Best Sites for 2002, describing YDC as 'stupendous'. Other recent accolades include being named a "Forbes Favorite" (www.forbes.com) and "le meilleur de net" by Le Monde (Paris).

The Language Portal of Record

News media around the world have come to look to yourDictionary.com as the language portal of record. YDC's analysis of the Presidential Debates and on-going aftermath has made headlines around the world. Most recently, YDC has been prominently featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, CNN, CNN Headline News, and The Wall Street Journal.

Advisory Council of Experts (ACE)

The authority and academic rigor of the yourDictionary.com site is exemplified by its Advisory Council of Experts (ACE), composed of some two dozen of the world's most accomplished linguists. The distinguished members of the Council provide indispensable guidance in the development, acquisition, and maintenance of the dictionaries under their purview, and help ensure the integrity of their respective areas of linguistic specialization.