Agents Technologies Ships Copernic 98plus; Industry's First Professional Search Agent Searches 18 Content-Specific Channels and 133 Leading Engines Simultaneously.QUEBEC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1998--Agents Technologies Corporation, developers of innovative agent technologies and solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Copernic 98plus, the world's leading professional search agent software. The product searches 18 content-specific channel sets of leading Web sites by categorizing the most relevant sites, newsgroups and other Internet data in a given content area, such as sports or personal finance, and enables users to customize by adding or prioritizing search targets. In addition, the software has the capacity to simultaneously search 133 of the most important engines and direct specific channels. Some searchable channel sets on Copernic 98plus include entertainment (Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Bibliofind, Sony Online), news (ABCNEWS.com, Business Wire, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Interactive, Fox News Online, MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , Wired News, ZD News), sports (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine, CNN/Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports), kids (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. NetFind Kids, Disney, Yahooligans), computing (CMPnet, Filez, FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to Search, ZDNet Software Library, TUCOWS TUCOWS The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software TUCOWS The Ultimate Collection of Windows Software ), software (BuySoftware.com, Software.net, Cyberian Outpost), emails (WhoWhere?, BigFoot, Switchboard, InfoSpace), travel (Yahoo Travel), newsgroups (AltaVista Usenet, Deja News, Reference.com) and the Web (AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Lycos, etc.). Copernic 98plus costs $29.95 and contains all 18 channel sets, plus free updates to additional channels expected to be released between version upgrades. Copernic 98plus can be purchased at http://www.copernic.com and at more than 200 cyberstores, including Techwave, Buysoftware, Netsales, Digital River, MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , AOL, Prodigy, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. and CompuServe. Copernic 98, the company's recently announced free version which includes three major channel sets, is available at 65 download sites, including ZDNet, CNET and TUCOWS. Users of Copernic 98 free search agent software will also be eligible for a 30-day free trial of the more advanced Copernic 98plus. Innovative Agent Creates "Search Channels" By Searching Only Most Relevant Sites Rather than searching the entire Web for a word or phrase, Copernic 98plus gives users the option to query the most relevant content-specific sites, from sports to shopping, for the most exacting search possible. Copernic 98plus effectively ranks results in favor of the most relevant sites, checks for dead links, and compiles the results in a hypertext summary that can be saved, filed and even emailed. Saving searches also means they can be updated later without initiating a completely new search. Equally impressive is the fact that Copernic 98plus allows users to add their own intranets or extranets as additional channels. These capabilities can be developed with the free Channel Development Kit (CDK Cdk cyclin-dependent protein kinase. ) for Web and intranet developers that will be available to all registered users of Copernic 98plus. -0- For more information, call 418/527-0528 or use info@agents-tech.com. Agents Technologies Corporation is located at 2014, Jean-Talon Nord, #300, Sainte-Foy (Quebec), Canada G1N 4N6. CONTACT: THE TERPIN GROUP Rolland Going/Michael Crusick, 310/821-6100 Fax: 310/577-9646 Email: rgoing@terpin.com or mcrusick@terpin.com |
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