QUARTERDECK PARTNERS WITH LEADING SEARCH ENGINE PROVIDERS TO MAXIMIZE
ONLINE ADVERTISING EXPOSURE FOR BOTH COMPANIES FOR WEBCOMPASS

WebCompass Personal Edition Will Pull Advertisements Through Along With
Queries

MARINA DEL REY, CALIF., FEBRUARY 12, 1996 --- Quarterdeck Corp. (NASDAQ:
QDEK) HAS REACHED AGREEMENTS WITH INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE PROVIDERS
InfoSeek Corp., Lycos, WebCrawler Corp., AND Yahoo! Inc. TO BETTER UTILIZE
THEIR DATABASE ENGINES WITH QUARTERDECK SEARCH TOOLS. THE AGREEMENT
ENSURES THAT ADVERTISEMENTS RESIDING AT EACH SEARCH ENGINE PROVIDER'S SITE
WILL FILTER THROUGH DURING QUERIES MADE BY QUARTERDECK'S NEW WEBCOMPASS
PERSONAL EDITION IN ADDITION TO THE INFORMATION REQUESTED WHEN A QUERY IS
MADE. THIS MAKES WEBCOMPASS PERSONAL EDITION THE FIRST SEARCH TOOL THAT
SUPPORTS ADVERTISING FROM THE SEARCH ENGINE VENDORS.

Additionally, each vendor will advertise WebCompass and other Quarterdeck
products on their respective sites, creating awareness of the products
with their users. This cooperation with the search engine vendors comes as
Quarterdeck prepares to introduce WebCompass Personal Edition, giving the
new product a boost in advance of its launch.

"This agreement will benefit all users on the World Wide Web by combining
the search and retrieval capabilities of these search engines with the
discovery and organization features of WebCompass. By working together,
Quarterdeck and the search engine companies significantly enhance the
ability of users to quickly locate the information most relevant to their
preferences. We are extremely pleased to be working with all of these
companies to deliver this versatility and ease of use to users on the
Web," said Gaston Bastiaens, President and CEO of Quarterdeck.

"Lycos provides the most comprehensive search and guide products on the
Internet," said Robert J. Davis, President and CEO of Lycos. "WebCompass
will augment the user's experience at Lycos by providing additional
sophisticated abstracting and summarization of that information."

"Yahoo! is pleased to be a default search resource on WebCompass and to
offer users a quick way to get the most accurate and useful results," said
Tim Koogle, CEO, Yahoo! Inc.

WebCompass Personal Edition is a mass market version of Quarterdeck's
award-winning WebCompass meta search and retrieval data system. WebCompass
Personal Edition features meta-searching and abstracting capabilities.
WebCompass Personal Edition is designed to work with all browsers, such as
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, to perform quick,
simple queries. A beta version of WebCompass Personal Edition will be
available on Quarterdeck's home page on February 15. General availability
is planned for April.

About Quarterdeck

Quarterdeck Corporation is a pioneer in the development of software
products in four strategic business areas: Utilities, Internet Solutions,
Internet Services, and Communications. The company has led the industry in
bringing utilities solutions to the Windows and DOS environments with its
award-winning QEMM memory management software. The company also offers an
entire line of powerful, next-generation Internet tools for corporate,
small business and individual users, including the award-winning
WebCompass, and the company's first product in the Communications market,
WebTalk.

Quarterdeck Corporation's headquarters are located at 13160 Mindanao Way,
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

The Dublin, Ireland office serves as its European headquarters, with
offices in England, France, Germany, and Australia. Further product
availability and pricing information can be obtained by calling (310)
309-3700, by accessing Quarterdeck's Internet Web site at
http://www.quarterdeck.com/ , or by sending an e-mail request to
info@quarterdeck.com .

pardMEDIA CONTACTS:
Ellen Spooren
Quarterdeck Corporation
(310) 309-4221
spooren@quarterdeck.com

Kevin Bourke
Brodeur & Partners
(617) 622-2800
kbourke@brodeur.com
 
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