RELEASED:  December 21, 2000

CompletePlanet is the database that houses searchable databases for BrightPlanet, the Internet Content Company. CompletePlanet: the Source of all Search, is the central access point for all relevant public search destinations in the surface and deep Web. BrightPlanet recently announced it has doubled the size of its searchable database compilation to 35,000, the largest on the Internet. The ultimate goal is to catalogue and compile all of the approximately 200,000 searchable databases.

In listing the Honorable Mention awards for the Best Specialty Search Category, Search Engine Watch said specialty search services, including CompletePlanet, "are worthy of honorable mentions because of the unique and useful features they offer. They either appeared in 2000 or rose to prominence during that year."

The award cites CompletePlanet, stating that "it offers access to "invisible" or "deep web" content that ordinary web search services generally miss."

BrightPlanet's Enterprise Services division is a premier provider of Internet content infrastructure and search data to Web-enabled businesses using automated technologies for content discovery, retrieval, aggregation, qualification and classification. Its Professional Services division provides search content tools and authoritative search sites to individual information professionals.

BrightPlanet.com LLC is a privately held company founded in 1999 and based in Sioux Falls, SD. Its corporate Web site is at http://www.brightplanet.com.

Links and Contact

More information on searchable databases within the Deep Web may be obtained from BrightPlanet's white paper, available online or for download from http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp.

BrightPlanet's LexiBot software for searching the Deep Web from the desktop can be downloaded from http://www.lexibot.com.

For more information or to set up interviews, contact Bryan Bjerke, Media Relations, at (605) 331-6012.

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BrightPlanet has unique technologies for deep content discovery, retrieval, management, aggregation, qualification and classification. Its products include collaborative, high-productivity search tools for professional knowledge workers and comprehensive directory sites that provide single access to pre-qualified content for individual companies and public Web portals.

BrightPlanet is a privately held company founded in 1999 based in Sioux Falls, SD, with business and sales offices in Menlo Park, CA. Its corporate Web site is at http://www.brightplanet.com.