EDGAR® ONLINE® TO DEMONSTRATE I-METRICS™ EXCEL ADD-IN AT THE VALUERICH SMALL-CAP FINANCIAL EXPO

Suite of XBRL-Based Products to Improve Speed
and Accuracy of Financial Analysis

SOUTH NORWALK, Conn. -- February 9, 2005 -- EDGAR® Online®, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR), a leading provider of value-added business and financial information on global companies to financial, corporate and advisory professionals, announced today that it will hold demonstrations of its new EDGAR Online I-Metrics™ Excel Add-In at the ValueRich Small-Cap Financial Expo in Palm Beach, Fla., March 9-12, 2005.

The Expo is hosted by ValueRich, Inc., publisher of ValueRich magazine. The event is designed to give company officers and financial professionals an opportunity to explore and develop new business relationships.

President and CEO of EDGAR Online Susan Strausberg, along with EDGAR Online CFO and COO Greg D. Adams, will be showcasing I-Metrics at the event, as well as discussing the company's background and strategy. I-Metrics enables users to analyze public company information from SEC filings quickly and accurately. As part of the company's suite of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) products, I-Metrics will enable users of Microsoft® Excel to access public company financial data without ever leaving Excel, saving EDGAR Online's clients time and improving accuracy.

Strausberg said, “I-Metrics, which uses XBRL tagging, will revolutionize the evaluation of financial content by removing human intervention. Our clients will be able to analyze public company information as soon as the filings are made and at a much lower cost compared to other data vendors. The ValueRich Expo will give us an excellent chance to expose our company and products to a valuable audience. We look forward to participating in and sponsoring the Expo.”

Joseph Visconti, founder and president of ValueRich, said, “The ValueRich Small-Cap Financial Expo will be the largest small-cap public company gathering of its kind. It will attract thousands of research analysts, fund managers, investment bankers, investors, accountants and attorneys. We are pleased that EDGAR Online will join us as a sponsor of this important event.”

More information about the Expo, including how to register, is available on the Web at www.vrexpo.net or by calling (561) 832-8878.

About EDGAR® Online®, Inc.
EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR), www.edgar-online.com, is a leading provider of value-added business and financial information on global companies to financial, corporate and advisory professionals. The company makes its information and a variety of analysis tools available via online subscriptions and licensing agreements to a large user base.

"Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance. These statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. EDGAR Online, Inc. disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Please refer to the documents filed by EDGAR Online, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to risks associated with our ability to (i) increase revenues, (ii) obtain profitability, and (iii) obtain additional financing, changes in general economic and business conditions (including in the online business and financial information industry), actions of our competitors, the extent to which we are able to develop new services and markets for our services, risks in connection with acquisitions, the time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services and changes in our business strategies.

EDGAR® is a federally registered trademark of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). EDGAR Online is not affiliated with or approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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