COPERNIC98

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COPERNIC98

• Presentation by
• Joe Currie
• Roseanne Wabegijig

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Overall Agenda

• Presentation is divided into two sections
• First Section
• General Information on Copernic98
• Introduction to how to get started using Copernic
• Second Section
• Search Engines
• Comparison Demo
• Conclusion
• Resource Page

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Topics

• Search Engines list
• Survey Results
• Compatibility
• Overview
• Intelligent Features
• Searches
• Results
• Folder Management
• Records Management Field

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Search Engines http//www.davecentral.com/2498.ht
ml

• - 123 PosiTrax- AceSearch- Alexa- Alta
  Vista Discovery
• - ANTHILL Internet Sear...- Arf- BeeLine
  98- Big Nerd Snoop- Blue Squirrel
  WebSeek...- Citizen1 Internet Too...-
  CooHunt- Cool Shark- Copernic 98
• - CrazySearch '98- CrowCall- CyberSense
  Search Cen...- Cybot- Data Grabber 3-
  Digital Aquarius Sim...- DonTs Search
  Explorer

• - Easy Access- Elephant Tracks- Excite
  Direct- f.Search- FtpWolf- GVW Quick
  Search- Hadida Quick Search- Hurricane
  WebSearch
• - I-Search- IE4Searcher- Inforia Quest 98-
  Inforian Quest 98- Infoseek Quickseek-
  Internet EZ Search- Internet Graphics Fin...
  - Internet Tornado- KillerSearch- Lazo-
  MacroBot Pro- MetaQuest

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Search Engines continued

• - More Like This- MP3-Wolf- Mp3Leech-
  NetFerret- NetGetIt- Personal Crawler-
  PhoneFerret- Power Internet Search
• - QueryN MetaSearch- Quest- RoboShopper-
  Scanline SwiftSearch- Scape Web Search-
  Search Magnet- Search Now- Search4-
  SearchPad- Shopping Explorer- Solway's
  Freeware Int...- TechSeeker

• - Top-10 Tracker- Trawler- Ultimate File
  Finder- Wanted Jobs 98- Web Compass- Web
  Harvestor- Web on Flight- Web Sleuth- Web
  Text Finder- Webcruizer- WebFerret-
  WebShades- WebStorm- WebWolf- WhoIs-
  World Search'- WWW Address Finder

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What Our Little Survey Indicated

• 90 enjoy surfing, definitely discuss Copernic98
• 20 very skilled, focus on improving searching
  speed
• 90 use at school, make it fun or relevant (job
  wise)
• 30 prior use of Copernic98, need background
  info.
• 90 indicated interest in improving Internet
  efficiency
• definitely cover customizing and advanced
  features
• NOTE questionnaire has been posted on our
  Internet

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• Copernic 98
• is an Intelligent Agent
• carries out net-searches by simultaneously
  consulting the most important search engines on
  the Internet
• creates a history of your searches
• keeps precious information organized and handy

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Compatibility

• minimum equipment requirements 486-33 MHz, 8 MB
  of RAM, 5 MB of disk space
• operating system requirements Windows 95/98 or
  Windows NT 4.0 or later ?
• browser required Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0
  or later, Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later ?
• supports the Microsoft IntelliMouse
• Windows compliant software uninstall procedure
• accessibility to the program from Windows
  Start/Find Menu

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Your Free Personal Search Agent

• more than 30 information sources
• grouped within these 3 channel sets
• The Web
• Newsgroups
• E-mails

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Intelligent Features

• create searches with search wizard
• score and display documents according to
  relevancy
• duplicate matches are automatically eliminated
  ?
• eliminate invalid/unreachable documents ?
• refine searches using Boolean operators

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Features continued

• update searches, group in folders
• export or e-mail various file types ?
• browse using
• RESULTS EXPLORER Window
• Web Page Format
• or download needed documents for offline browsing

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Copernic 98plusonly 39.98 CAN30 day free
trial, (after Feb. 1, 1998 49.95)Copernic
98plus Upgrade27.95 CANCopernic 98plus
Educational27.95 CANrebate offered version
1.1 or 1.2 since Feb. 1, 98entitled to version
98plus without charge
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Features for Copernic98plus

• 130 information sources
• 20 channel sets
• The three free channels are included
• The Web, Newsgroups and E-mails
• Plus
• Books, Business, Finance, Games, Jobs, Kids,
  Movies, Music, News, Software, Sports, Technology
  and Travel

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Copernic98 (Customizing and Advanced Features)

• customize your channels (add an unlimited number
  of search engines)
• replace Internet Explorer search bar with
  Copernic
• extensive use of fonts and colours to pinpoint
  doc.
• ergonomically designed Results Explorer window
• adds column shifts and resizing to presentation
  of searches
• shortcut to Copernic on Windows Quick Launch
  toolbar

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Searches

• maximum number of results per channel 300
• maximum number or results per query 1,000
• create folders for your searches
• copy and move searches from one folder to the
  other
• export various file types (HTML, Text, XML, Comma
  Separated, dBase) or e-mail in HTML or in text
• view search results in two ways one for queries
  and one for detailed results
• number of queries limited by disk space available
  computer capability
• supports Boolean searches and quotes
• modify query parameters at any time

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Results

• documents scored/displayed according to relevancy
• eliminate duplicates automatically ?
• extensive information concerning each document
  possible reachable, new, downloaded, visited,
  etc.
• progressive display of results during search
• search for text in results window

• delete results not relevant, or unreachable, or
  selection of results
• refine from downloaded pages
• offline browsing
• consult document during search
• search report (in Web page format)
• sort report in Web page format
• quick selector to navigate report

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Folder Management

• This function allows you to classify searches in
  categories to facilitate the tracing and
  management of documents by
• creating, deleting and renaming
• using the File/Folder section of main menu
• You may also copy/move searches from one folder
  to the other
• via the CopyTo or Move To function in the Search
  section of the same menu

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Topics

• Search Engines list ?
• Survey Results ?
• Compatibility ?
• Overview ?
• Intelligent Features ?
• Searches ?
• Results ?
• Folder Management ?
• Records Management Field ?

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Second Half of Our Presentation
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Resource List

• Toll-free number 1-800-463-1 (DIL) (345)
• Copernic98 Home Page Home
• General Info Help Menu http//www.copernic.com/h
  elpanswers.htmlfaq001
• Press Release http//www.copernic.com/press_1.htm
  l
• Search Engine List http//www.davecentral.com/249
  8.html
• Rebate Offer sales_at_agents-tech.com
• Downloads Free Downloads
• 30-day evaluation copy http//www.copernic.com
• Agent Technologies sales_at_agents-tech.com

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Resources continued

• Year 2000 Compliant here
• Info on Screen Shots, descriptions and Icons
  here
• Latest version Copernic98 http//www.copernic.com/
  copernic98.exe
• Latest ver. Copernic98 plus http//www.copernic.c
  om/copernic98plus.exe
• Support 98plus support_at_agents-tech.com
• more channels Additional Channels for The Web
• French channels French Channels
• search engines http//www.copernic.com/channels