Hoover's Media Technologies Announces Enhancements To Hoover's Intelligence Monitor; Now Includes 7,700 Sources

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AUSTIN, TEXAS - April 2, 2001 - Hoover's Media Technologies (HMT), a unit of Hoover's, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOOV), a leading provider of online business information, tools, and content integration and syndication technology, today announced enhancements to Hoover's Intelligence Monitor, the company's newest subscription product.

Hoover's Intelligence Monitor is a Web-based service that enables subscribers to easily monitor thousands of news wires, newspapers, newsletters, periodicals, trade journals, Web sites and broadcast channels for mentions of the companies, people, products, trends and other topics that are important to them. With these latest enhancements, subscribers can now build their own customized business intelligence tool online within minutes.

Among the enhancements to the service are greater personalization features, an additional 2,000 newspapers and periodicals licensed from Bell & Howell Information and Learning, and the addition of 3,000 high-quality Web sites indexed by specialty search engine Moreover, Inc. With these new content additions, the service now comes bundled with content from 7,700 sources.

HMT is offering unconditional two-week free trials of Hoover's Intelligence Monitor. Those interested in a free trial should visit http://hmt.hoovers.com to register and build their own customized version of Hoover's Intelligence Monitor.

About Hoover's, Inc.

Hoover's, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOOV) provides online business information, tools, and content integration and syndication technology to help businesspeople get their jobs done. Hoover's information is available through its destination sites Hoover's Online (www.hoovers.com) and the company's other sites in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K., through syndication and co-branding agreements with more than 30 other online services, and through customized applications developed for enterprise information portals, corporate intranets and business-to-business vertical and content sites. Hoover's investors include AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL), Media General (AMEX: MEG.A), NBC -- a unit of General Electric (NYSE: GE), and Knowledge Universe, through its Knowledge Net Holdings and Nextera Enterprises (Nasdaq: NXRA) units. Hoover's is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in London, New York City and San Francisco.

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