SNAP.COM AND XOOM.COM FORGE $75 MILLION CONTENT AND E-COMMERCE RELATIONSHIPS WITH HEALTHGATE DATA CORP. INTEGRATED MEDIA DEAL SECURES Multiple Anchor Tenancies Within Snap.com's Health Channel and Features HealthGate(R) in Snap.com's NBC Television Promotional Campaign

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 4, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Snap.com and
XOOM.com Inc. (Nasdaq: XMCM) -- key components of the proposed NBC
Internet, Inc. (NBCi) -- today announced agreements valued at $75
million with HealthGate(R) Data Corp., making the company the primary
provider of health content within Snap.com's Health Channel and
affording HealthGate prominent placement in select Snap.com commercials
slated to air on the NBC Television Network.


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HealthGate ( http://www.healthgate.com ), a leading provider of
Internet-based personal health and medical information, will serve as
Snap.com's primary anchor tenant within seven major co-branded resource
centers within the Snap.com Health Channel, with topics varying from
diseases and conditions to men's health and medications.


Additionally, XOOM.com and HealthGate will offer co-branded direct
e-commerce offers to HealthGate members, or those online users who sign
up specifically for HealthGate content on Snap.com's Health Channel.


As part of the three-year agreements, HeathGate will be featured in
select Snap.com on-air advertisements designed to promote the
Snap/HealthGate co-branded areas on Snap.com.


"These agreements with Snap.com and XOOM.com will help grow
HealthGate's awareness among both Internet users and TV viewers,
alike," said Bill Reece, Chief Executive Officer and President of
HealthGate Data Corp. "Snap.com's connection with NBC has helped the
portal to grow significantly in a short amount of time and is an
excellent place to showcase HealthGate's top-notch content and
services."


"This $75 million deal demonstrates the value Snap.com and XOOM.com can
bring to Internet companies looking to match quality content and
services with a mass audience both on-air and online," said NBCi
President and COO-Designate, Edmond Sanctis, current Chief Operating
Officer of Snap.com. "HealthGate's top-quality content will expand and
enhance the breadth and depth of information currently offered on
Snap.com, furthering Snap.com's commitment to bring our users and
members the best of the Internet."


"The type of user drawn to HealthGate's sophisticated content is a
perfect consumer match for XOOM.com's highly-targeted direct e-commerce
offers. XOOM.com is pleased to be working with such forward-looking
partners as Snap.com and HealthGate," said NBCi Chief Executive
Officer-designate, Chris Kitze, current Chairman of XOOM.com.


The Snap.com Internet portal is slated to be merged with several of
NBC's Internet assets and XOOM.com, Inc., one of the fastest growing
community-based sites on the Web and a leading direct e-commerce
services company, to form NBCi, which will use Snap.com as its umbrella
consumer brand, integrating portal, community and e-commerce services.
NBCi will be one of the first publicly traded Internet companies
combining these services in a strategic relationship with a major
broadcast television network, subject to approval by the stockholders
of XOOM.com.


About HealthGate Data Corp.(R) HealthGate Data Corp. provides health
and medical information over the World Wide Web, helping healthcare
professionals, patients and health-conscious consumers make better
informed healthcare decisions. To assist these users, HealthGate has
aggregated and developed extensive content libraries, comprising over
300 different content sources with over 27 million different pages of
health and medical information. HealthGate distributes its value-added
content through its own Web sites, customized, co-branded CHOICE(R) Web
sites developed for hospitals and other enterprises, third party Web
sites to which content is syndicated, and its activePress web-enabling
service used by print publishers. For more information, visit the
HealthGate Web site at www.healthgate.com.


About Snap.com Snap.com, the Internet portal service company from NBC
and CNET (Nasdaq: CNET), operates the Snap.com flagship portal service
( http://www.snap.com ) and Snap.com For Higher-Speed Users (
http://speed.snap.com ), one of the first-ever rich media services of
its kind. Snap.com's Internet portal services offer users powerful ways
to organize and find anything on the Internet. Snap.com's Internet
portal services feature content from over 100 leading Web publishers,
and are distributed by more than 50 Internet Service Providers,
telephone and communications companies, PC manufacturers and
third-party marketers. At the heart of Snap.com's portal services is a
directory of Web sites and over 500 resource centers, built by a team
of editors and reviewers to ensure quality, freshness and usefulness.
Users may either search the Snap directory by using keywords, or browse
through the directory's 16 topic categories.