Copyright: Copyright © 1998 Agents Technologies (MEB) Corp.


Copernic Help Contents

· Introducing Copernic

· Copernic License Agreement

· How to Search Using Copernic

Creating a New Search

Modifying a Search

Starting a Search

Search Progress Window

Validating Documents

Downloading Documents

Refining a Search

Finding Words in Results

· Browsing Search Results

Search Results Page

Search Results Toolbar

Results Explorer Window

· Screen Overview

Menu Overview

Toolbar Overview

Main Window

· Folder Management

· Customizing Copernic

Channel Sets Window

Options Window

Format Views Window

· Technical Specifications Sheet

· Acknowledgements


Introducing Copernic

Copernic 98 is an intelligent agent that carries out your net-searches by simultaneously consulting the most important search engines of the Internet which are grouped under channel sets as The Web, Newsgroups and E-mails. It features a history of your searches, making sure that the precious information found on the Internet is always organized and handy. Copernic 98 is FREE and offers only three channel sets. Copernic 98 Plus, on the other hand, allows you to use more than 15 channel sets, giving you the ability to use more than 100 search engines and specific directories.

You will find what you want more easily and faster with Copernic 98 and its intelligent features:

•	found documents are presented in a comprehensive way with various icons and fonts

•	duplicate matches are automatically removed

•	invalid and unreachable document links may be eliminated

•	matching documents may be downloaded for offline browsing

•	searches may be refined from downloaded documents by using Boolean operators (AND, OR, EXCEPT)

•	search reports may be generated in Web page format for easy browsing, filtering and sorting of documents

•	a search results selector toolbar allows you to switch quickly between the matching documents

•	searches may be updated, grouped into folders, etc.

•	three extra features are available if you have Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later): an ergonomically designed Results Explorer window can be used to browse, filter and sort found documents easier and faster; the default Internet Explorer search window can be replaced by Copernic; Copernic can be launched from the Quick Launch toolbar

All this and much more in a flexible and user-friendly interface which has the touch and feel of most common e-mail management applications!

See also: Technical Specifications Sheet.


Copernic License Agreement

LICENSE TERMS FOR COPERNIC 98 AND COPERNIC 98 PLUS

Please read this License Agreement before using this software. By using this software, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this License. If you do not agree to these terms, promptly cease all further installation or use of the software. It is agreed that certain restrictions under this License only apply to Copernic 98 software or, as the case may be, to Copernic 98 Plus software.

DEFINITIONS

In this Agreement, "ATC" means Agents Technologies (MEB) Corporation; "LICENSEE" means you, the licensee of the software; "SOFTWARE" means the Copernic 98 or Copernic 98 Plus software, depending on the product type purchased or used by the LICENSEE, as the case may be, being understood that Copernic 98 software is offered free of charge and Copernic 98 Plus has a 30-day free trial period, including any technology and utility software licensed by ATC from the developers and owners thereof to ATC, together with all accompanying documentation; "SEARCH ENGINE" means the searching tools available over the Internet.

LICENSE

In consideration of your undertaking to comply with the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, ATC grants you, LICENSEE, a non-exclusive license to use the Software and to view the documentation on a single computer system. It is also agreed that the License granted to the LICENSEE pertaining to Copernic 98 Plus is non-transferable. LICENSEE may not use the Software on a network server or on more than one computer terminal at the same time. This Agreement does not grant LICENSEE any rights to patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trade names, trade marks (whether registered or unregistered), or any other rights, functions or licenses in respect of the Software.

COPYRIGHT AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE

The Software contains copyrighted material and, in its human readable form, it contains trade secrets and proprietary information owned by or licensed to ATC. Title to and ownership of the Software and the documentation that accompanies the Software and all intellectual property rights in the Software and said documentation are and shall remain the sole property of ATC and/or its licensors.

LICENSEE may not de-compile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce it to human readable form. LICENSEE may not modify, rent, lease, loan the Software or distribute copies of it. LICENSEE may not electronically transfer the Software over a network, a telephone circuit or the Internet. These restrictions related to the distribution and electronic transfer of the Software do not apply to the Copernic 98 software. LICENSEE may not create derivative software based upon any trade secret or proprietary information of ATC and/or its licensors. LICENSEE may not sub-license, assign or transfer this License. LICENSEE may not copy the printed information in the package. LICENSEE may not adapt or use any trademark or trade name which is likely to be similar to or confusing with that of ATC or any of its licensors or take any other action which impairs or reduces the trademark rights of ATC or of its licensors.

LICENSEE may make one copy of the Software for backup or archival purposes, provided that LICENSEE duplicates the copyright notice and other identifying information on the disk's label and affix such notice to the backup copy. LICENSEE may print a copy of the documentation from the disk only for LICENSEE's use for the sole purpose of operating the Software.

LICENSEE further acknowledges that this License is not a sale or an assignment of ATC and/or its licensors' intellectual property rights in the Software and the accompanying documentation and that ATC and its licensors continue to own title to the Software and copyright to the printed information.

SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS RELATED TO COPERNIC 98

The Copernic 98 Software may be freely distributed, provided that:

1. Such distribution included only the original archive supplied by ATC. You may not alter, delete or add any files in the distribution archive.

2. The distribution does not include a registration number. In particular, you may not distribute a registered piece of software.

3. No money is charged to the person receiving the Copernic 98 Software, beyond reasonable cost of packaging and other overhead.

NO WARRANTY

ATC does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations that the functions contained in the Software will meet LICENSEE's requirements or that the operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error-free. Any other Software and any hardware furnished with or accompanying the Software is not warranted by ATC.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR OF ANY OTHER TYPE, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND TO ANY REMEDY AGAINST ATC AND/OR ITS LICENSORS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, DELICT, QUASI-DELICT OR OTHERWISE. SOME JURISDICTION DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO THE PRECEDING EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL ATC AND/OR OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR DIRECT OR INDIRECT DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFIT) ARISING OUT OF LICENSEE'S USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE OR PRINTED INFORMATION ACCOMPANYING IT, WHETHER OR NOT ATC AND/OR ANY OF ITS LICENSORS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. THIS EXCLUSION INCLUDES ANY LIABILITY THAT MAY ARISE OUT OF THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS AGAINST LICENSEE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL ATC AND/OR OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO THE CONTINUED AVAILABILITY OF SEARCH ENGINES, CHANNELS OR CHANNEL SETS INCLUDED IN THE SOFTWARE OR UTILIZED BY IT. ATC AND/OR ITS LICENSORS MAKES NO WARRANTY WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, CORRECTNESS, TIMELINESS OR SUITABILITY OF THE CONTENT OF ANY SERVICE OR INFORMATION PROVIDED BY ANY SEARCH ENGINE OR DIRECTORY, AND TAKES NO RESPONSABILITY THEREFORE.

EXPORT LAW ASSURANCES

LICENSEE agrees that the Software and other technical information, both printed and verbal, received from ATC will not be exported outside of the United States except as permitted by the laws and regulations of the United States. If LICENSEE rightfully obtain the Software and accompanying information outside of the United States, LICENSEE agrees not to re-export the Software and information except as permitted by the laws and regulations of the United States and the jurisdiction in which LICENSEE obtained the Software.

US GOVERNMENT USE

Use, duplication or disclosure of the Software by the U.S. Government is subject to "Restricted Rights", as that term is defined in the Department of Defense ("DOD") Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulations ("DFARS") in paragraph 252.227-7013(c)(1)(ii) if to the DOD, or, if the Software and/or accompanying information is supplied to any unit or agency of the U.S. Government other than DOD, the Government's rights in the Software and/or accompanying information shall be as defined in subparagraphs (c)(1) or (c)(2) of FAR 52.227-19, Commercial Computer software -Restricted Rights; or FAR 52.227-14, Rights in General Data Alternative III, as applicable.

TERMINATION

This License shall remain in full force and effect unless and until terminated. This License will terminate immediately, automatically and without notice if LICENSEE fails to comply with any provision of this Agreement. Upon termination, LICENSEE must stop using the Software, erase or destroy all copies of the Software, and destroy all printed information provided with the Software.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and ATC and supersedes any other prior agreements or communications regarding the Software. If any provision of this agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this agreement shall continue in effect.

WAIVER

The failure by ATC or any of its licensors to enforce at any time any of the provisions of this agreement, to exercise any election or option provided herein, or to require at any time the performance by you of any of the provisions herein will not in any way be construed as a waiver of such provisions.

LANGUAGE OF AGREEMENT

LICENSEE agrees that this agreement be drafted in the English language. Le licencié accepte que la présente convention soit rédigée en anglais.

GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement shall be governed and be construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Quebec and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

Copyright (C) Agents Technologies (MEB) Corp., 1998

Agents Technologies (MEB) Corp.

2014, Jean-Talon Nord, suite 300

Sainte-Foy (Québec)

Canada G1N 4N6


How to Search Using Copernic

· Creating a New Search

· Modifying a Search

· Starting a Search

· Search Progress Window

· Validating Documents

· Downloading Documents

· Refining a Search

· Finding Words in Results


Creating a New Search

This function is used to set the search query, the channel set and search parameters.

Channel sets

Select the most appropriate channel set for your search. All channel sets are available with Copernic 98 Plus, and only three are available with the free Copernic 98. Four schemes are also available (Quick search, Normal search, Detailed search and Custom). You may set the Custom scheme to a maximum of 300 results per channel and a maximum total of 1000 results.

The Properties button of this window gives access to the Channel Sets window.

•	The Channel Set tab shows the selected channel set title, its description and default search scheme.

•	The Channels tab shows the available channels (search engines) for the selected channel set. You may deactivate or reactivate default channels by clicking the corresponding checkbox. Using the Visit Home Page button gives access to the channel Web site front page.

The updating of channels offered by Agents Technologies is automatically made once a week. This updating may, for instance, add channels or channel sets, modify or remove channels.

Query

Specify the significant keywords to search for. Possible modes of entry of search keywords are:

•	one word or a simple sequence of words (e.g.: sport health benefits)

•	a sequence of words in quotation marks (e.g.: "Albert Einstein")

•	a combination of the first two options (e.g.: "Albert Einstein" relativity)

The combination of significant words help to narrow the search of documents. Please note that Boolean operators (AND, OR) are only available with the Refine function (see Refining a Search).

Select one of the three choices offered:

•	search for all words: returns will include every keyword entered (and)

•	search for any word: returns will include at least one keyword (or)

•	search for exact phrase: returns will include the exact phrase entered ("...")

Parameters

This section of the New Search window allows you to modify the default search scheme, which determines the number of matching documents for each channel and for the entire search. In most cases, you should obtain enough results using the default choices.

In the case of an exhaustive search, it is advisable to obtain a maximum number of results before using the Validate Documents and Refine Search functions. However, you should remember that the search will take longer and that the amount of space required on the hard disk will be greater.

See also: Starting a Search, Modifying a Search, Refining a Search.


Modifying a Search

This function is used to change the parameters of an existing search.

See also: Creating a New Search, Starting a Search, Refining a Search.


Starting a Search

This function starts searching for an existing search.

See also: Search Progress Window, Creating a New Search, Modifying a Search, Refining a Search.


Validating Documents

This function identifies documents that cannot be reached, either because their address is invalid or because the connection could not be established within the time limit set. This validation can be carried out on all the results of a search or on selected results only.

See also: Downloading Documents, Refining a Search.


Downloading Documents

This function downloads found documents to disk for offline browsing. This function can be applied to all the results of a search or to selected results only.

See also: Validating Documents, Refining a Search.


Refining a Search

This function allows you to perform a refine on downloaded documents by using Boolean operators with keywords of a search query.

Query formulation

Specify the significant keywords to search for. Here are some possible modes of entry of a search query:

•	one word (e.g.: sport)

•	a simple sequence of words (e.g.: sport AND health AND benefits, sport AND health OR benefits, sport AND health EXCEPT boxing)

•	a sequence of words in quotation marks (e.g.: "Albert Einstein")

•	a combination of the two preceding options (e.g.: "Albert Einstein" AND relativity OR mathematics, "Albert Einstein" OR "Marie Curie")

The combination of significant words should help to narrow the search for documents.

Some guidelines about Boolean operators (the use of capital letters is only for better clarity)

AND: For a more specific query, use this Boolean operator. It limits results to those documents that contain all of the search terms in your query. For instance, using these search queries: sport AND health AND benefits, the search query should retrieve only those documents containing all three words in the same document.

OR: This operator may be useful for the first phases of a search, when you are not exactly sure what information is available on your topic or what words are used to categorize it. When used between two words, the OR operator instructs the search tool to retrieve any document containing either of the words. This Boolean operator returns the most found documents. Indeed, search queries containing OR are very broad and may often return documents that are not relevant.

EXCEPT (AND NOT): This operator is used to ignore documents containing a particular word or combination of words from your search results. For instance, if you are performing a search on "sport" and "health", you may wish to exclude documents dealing with "boxing". To make this exclusion, you could construct your search query as: sport AND health EXCEPT boxing. This search would identify all documents containing the words "sport" and "health" except for those that also contain the word "boxing" as illustrated below.

OR NOT: The use of these two combined operators is to include in results any documents else than those referred to a particular word or combination of words in your search results. For instance, if you performing a search on "sport" and "health", you might wish to consider also all other documents not dealing with "boxing". This search would return all documents containing the words "sport" and "health" plus any others which do not contain the word "boxing" as illustrated below. By example, if your search query is constructed as: sport AND health OR NOT boxing, the search would consider all documents containing the words "sport" and "health" and all other documents which do not contain the word "boxing".

By browsing through your results list, you may determine whether or not your query is returning relevant documents. Then, you may construct a search query using the Boolean operators OR, AND, EXCEPT and OR NOT to improve its results.

If you are sure that a certain phrase exists on the page you are looking for, you may put the phrase in quotes. For example, you may write the title of a song, as this one from Elvis Presley: "Love me Tender".

Summary

AND: Finds only documents containing all of the specified words or phrases.

OR: Finds documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. The found documents could contain all, but do not have to.

EXCEPT (AND NOT): Excludes documents containing the specified word or phrase. You may write AND NOT instead of EXCEPT.

OR NOT: Includes all other documents than those referred to a particular word or combination of words.

Advanced refining

Users wishing to refine with a sophisticated search query may consider these examples which are presented only as illustration:

Example 1: (sport and health) or "physical education" or "web surfing"

Example 2: not ((sport or health) and "physical education" and not "web surfing")

Example 3: (sport and health and "physical education") except "web surfing"

See also: Validating Documents, Downloading Documents.


Finding Words in Results

This option allows you to search for text in the title, description and address of found documents.


Browsing Search Results

· Search Results Page

· Search Results Toolbar

· Results Explorer Window


Search Results Page

This page allows you to browse search results. Displaying a search report in Web page format also allows you to benefit from the full potential of the browser, including printing results and the Copy and Paste functions.

The report heading identifies the keywords of a search, the date of its last update, the number of documents found and the order in which the documents are sorted.

Search results are displayed on three columns in the report.

•	The first column indicates a number assigned to each document according to the order in which it is displayed on screen. Note that a document may be assigned a different number for each type of sorting.

•	The second column contains the title, description and address of the document. In order to distinguish addresses, the address of the Internet link is followed by a symbol depicting the Earth, while the address of a document on disk is followed by a symbol representing a hard disk drive.

•	The third column indicates the rank assigned to each document.

See also: Search Results Toolbar.


Search Results Toolbar

This toolbar appears in the bottom right corner of the screen when using the Browse Results function in classic search results toolbar mode.

The browsing functions may be applied to all the results of a search or to a specific type of results (new documents, downloaded document, refined document, checkmarked documents, all documents). You may also enable or disable the display of unreachable documents.

This toolbar features:

•	A drop-down list to scroll document titles

This drop-down list makes it easier to browse between found documents.

•	4 navigation buttons

•	go to the first document

•	go to the previous document

•	go to the next document

•	go to the last document

•	A sort key selector

•	rank: rank attributed to a document in terms of its degree of interest

•	title: title of the document

•	address: document address

•	date: date of the search or last update

•	 A sort order selector

•	display the documents in ascending order based on the selected sort key

•	display the documents in descending order based on the selected sort key

See also: Search Results Page.


Screen Overview

· Menu Overview

· Toolbar Overview

· Main Window


Toolbar Overview

The group of buttons in the Copernic toolbar gives you quick access to the most frequently used commands.

The buttons are:

· New: Create a new search

· Modify: Modify an existing search

· Search: Submit the selected search to selected channel set

· Validate: Check if found documents are reachable

· Download: Download found documents for offline browsing

· Refine: Perform a sub-search on the local copy of found documents

· Stop: Stop the current operation

· Results: Open the search results report page for the selected search and the Search Results window or the integrated Results Explorer Window

See also: Menu Overview.


Main Window

Folders

This drop-down list allows you to select the search folder that is currently open (see Folder Management).

List of searches

This section of the screen displays the general information associated with each search of the currently open folder. The elements include the keywords to search for, the date of the search or its last update, the number of matches obtained during the search and the selected channel set.

It is possible to sort by column in ascending or descending order, to move the columns and to adjust their width. A triangle appears on the sort column and the direction in which it is pointed indicates the ascending or descending order of the searches.

Documents found for a selected search

This section of the screen displays the results of the selected search. The information on the documents located during the search is presented in eight columns and features:

•	the document's state represented by icons, colors and bold fonts (old document, new document, reachable document, unreachable document, downloaded document, refined document, updated document, visited document) (select View/Legend from the main menu).

•	optional user's checkmark

•	title

•	address

•	rank attributed to the document in terms of relevancy or degree of interest based on the search keywords

•	number of search channels where the document was located

•	date upon which the document was located

•	identification of the search channels where the document was located

Description Preview: A description preview appears under the previous data of each found document. You can deactivate or reactivate the description preview from the View/Description Preview menu. The default sets may be modified (see Format Views Window).

To facilitate the analysis of the information obtained, you may sort by column in ascending or descending order, move the columns and adjust their width. A triangle appears on the sort column and the direction in which it is pointed indicates the ascending or descending alphabetical order of the documents found. User may also checkmark selected documents by clicking the corresponding boxes.

You may also display a summary of document content by selecting File/Properties from the main menu.


Menu Overview

There are six sections of menu commands:

· File

Open: Open the selected document in the last active browser window

Open in New Window: Open the selected document in a new browser window

Folder: Contains commands for managing folders (see Folder Management)

Create...: Create a new folder

Delete: Delete an existing folder

Rename: Rename an existing folder

Properties: Display the properties of the selected document

Close: Close the window

· Edit

Copy Address: Copy the addresses of the selected documents to the clipboard

Delete: Delete the selected items (searches or documents)

Select All: Select all items (searches or documents)

Invert Selection: Invert item selection (searches or documents)

Find in Results: Search for text in the search results (see Finding Words in Results)

Find Next: Repeat the last find operation

· View

Toolbar: Show or hide the toolbar (see Toolbar Overview)

Status Bar: Show or hide the status bar

Preview Pane: Contains commands for changing the preview pane

Split Horizontally: Tile the preview pane and list horizontally

Split Vertically: Tile the preview pane and list vertically

Search Progress: View the Search Progress Window of the last search operation

Validate Progress: View the Validate Progress Window of the last search operation

Download Progress: View the Download Progress Window of the last search operation

Search Results: View the Search Results Toolbar

Legend: View the Legend Window which gives the significance of the different icons appearing for each found document shown on the Main Window, including colors and bold fonts (see Main Window).

Channel Sets...: Display information about available channel sets and their content (see Channel Sets Window)

Options...: Display configuration settings (see Options Window)

· Search

New: Create a new search (see Creating a New Search)

Modify: Change the properties of the selected search (see Modifying a Search)

Move To: Move selected searches to another folder (see Folder Management)

Copy To: Copy selected searches to another folder (see Folder Management)

Start Search: Submit the selected search (see Starting a Search)

Stop: Stop the current operation

Browse Results: Open the Search Results Page for the selected search and the Search Results Toolbar or the integrated Results Explorer Window

· Tools

Validate Documents: Check if found documents are reachable (see Validating Documents)

Download Documents: Download found documents for offline browsing (see Downloading Documents)

Refine Search: Perform a sub-search on the local copy of found documents (see Refining a Search)

· Help

Help Topics: Display Copernic help topics

Check for Updates: Check for software and channel updates

Configuration Wizard: Start the Configuration Wizard

Copernic Home Page: Open Copernic Home Page

About Copernic: Display information about Copernic version and copyrights

See also: Toolbar Overview.


Folder Management

This function allows you to classify searches in categories to facilitate the tracing and management of documents.

The Create, Delete and Rename functions are accessible from the File/Folder section of the main menu.

You may also copy or move searches from one folder to another via the functions Copy to or Move to, found in the Search section of the main menu.


Customizing Copernic

· Channel Sets Window

· Options Window

· Format Views Window


Channel Sets Window

This window allows you to view and modify the properties of the available channels and channel sets.

The Channel Set tab shows the selected channel set title, its description and default search scheme.

The Channels tab shows the available channels (search engines) for the selected channel set. You may deactivate or reactivate default channels by clicking the corresponding checkbox. Using the Visit Home Page button gives access to the channel Web site front page.


Options Window

This window allows you to change configuration settings with four tabs.

General tab

•	Visual settings

The first option of this section allows you to display or not text labels on toolbar buttons.

The second option allows to restore the default column settings (width and order).

•	Prompts

The first option of this section allows you to enable or disable the display of a prompt which asks to browse results following a search completion.

The second option allows you to enable or disable the display of a prompt which asks to confirm before stopping an operation.

The third option allows you to enable or disable the display of a prompt which asks to confirm before deleting a search or results.

The fourth option allows you to enable or disable the display of a message when unreachable documents are removed.

The last option allows you to enable or disable the display of a message when no Internet connection is detected.

Connection tab

•	Settings

This section allows you to change the number of simultaneous transfers, the delay for the search timeout and the maximum size of files to download.

•	Proxies

This section allows you to indicate if you are connected through a proxy server and to enter its settings (address and port). It also allows, if needed, to enter the parameters related to the use of a proxy authorization procedure (user name, password).

Internet Explorer tab (requires Internet Explorer 4.0 or later)

•	Integration Mode

This section allows you to change the tight integration features to Internet Explorer and Active Desktop. By clicking on the Settings button you may choose between the complete or the custom use of web-search enhancements. These two components may be added or removed individually by clicking the appropriate check box:

1.	Replace Internet Explorer's search bar: this component allows you to use Copernic when clicking the Search button of Internet Explorer's toolbar

2.	Create a shortcut to Copernic on the Quick Launch toolbar: this component allows you to create a shortcut on the Quick Launch toolbar.

•	Search Results

This section allows you to choose between the Results Explorer or the classic Search Results Toolbar to browse found documents.

Advanced tab

•	Timeouts

This section allows you to make the default search timeout delay applied to all operations or to indicate specific timeout delays for the validate and download operations.

•	Files

This section allows you to indicate if searches should be automatically deleted after a specified number of days and to clear downloaded files on demand.


Technical Specifications Sheet

Searches

•	The most important search engines (called channels) of the Internet are grouped under channel sets as The Web, Newsgroups, E-mails, News, Entertainment, Sports, Travel, Finance, Computing, Science, Education, Games, Shopping and Kids. Copernic 98 is FREE and offers only three channel sets. Copernic 98 Plus, on the other hand, allows to use more than 15 channel sets, giving the ability to use more than 100 search engines and specific directories.

•	Possibility of choosing among multiple specialized search channel sets for each query

•	Possibility of choosing the default channels in each channel set

•	Maximum number of results per channel: 300

•	Maximum number of results per query: 1,000

•	Possibility of creating folders for the searches

•	Possibility of copying and moving searches from one folder to the other

•	Search and result history available (the elements are displayed in two windows: one for the queries and one for detailed results)

•	No maximum number of queries in the history (limited only by the disk space available and the computer's capabilities)

•	Supports Boolean searches and quotes (AND / OR, for all search keywords)

•	Possibility of updating the results of a search (new documents highlighted)

•	Possibility of modifying query parameters at anytime

•	Replacement of Internet Explorer's search bar by a component allowing the use of Copernic when clicking the Search button of Internet Explorer's toolbar**

Results

•	Documents found are ranked in order of relevancy

•	Automatic elimination of duplicate documents

•	Extensive information concerning each document displayed on screen: state (reachable, unreachable, new, refined, downloaded), title, description preview, address, rank, hit count, date found, found by

•	Progressive display of the results obtained during the search

•	Possibility of searching for text in the results showed on screen

•	Possibility of deleting results

•	Possibility, upon request, to point or delete unreachable documents (overall documents or a selection of desired documents)

•	Possibility to refine searches from downloaded pages (overall results or a selection of desired results, supports Boolean searches (AND, OR, EXCEPT) and phrase

•	Documents may be downloaded on request for offline browsing (overall results or a selection of desired documents)

•	Possibility of consulting a document during a search

•	Production of a search report in Web page format

•	Possibility of sorting the report presented in Web page format (by rank, title, address or date)

•	Availability of a quick selector to facilitate navigation and consultation of the results using the browser (directional arrows, pull-down menu to select the documents, shortcut to the page containing the results, sort key selector for the report)

•	Extensive use of icons, fonts* and colors* to easily pinpoint documents

•	An ergonomically designed Results Explorer window allows the user to browse, filter and sort found documents, instead of using the classic search results toolbar**

Configuration

•	All search channels of a channel set may be contacted simultaneously (up to 32, speed is mainly limited by the computer's capabilities and the Internet connection)

•	Availability of search schemes: quick, normal, detailed, customized

•	Possibility of customizing the presentation of searches (multiple sorting by column in ascending or descending order, column shifts* and resizing)

•	Connection management options available: number of simultaneous connections, number of attempts, time-out delays

•	Support of all Internet connection modes, including the proxy servers (imports configuration from browser, manages the authorization procedure for proxies)

•	Possibility of changing multiple configuration settings (visual settings, prompts, Internet Explorer ActiveX components and files managing facilities)

•	Search results preview pane may be presented horizontally or vertically

•	Search results may be customized (multiple sorting by column, in ascending or descending order, column shift* and resizing)

•	Up to thirty two pages may be validated simultaneously (speed mainly limited by the computer's performance and the Internet connection)

•	Up to thirty two pages may be downloaded simultaneously (speed mainly limited by the computer's performance and the Internet connection)

•	Software configuration wizard included

•	Weekly automatic updating of channels and checking of software updates

•	Possibility of creating a shortcut to Copernic on the Window's Quick Launch toolbar**

Compatibility

•	Minimum equipment requirements: 486-33 MHz, 8 MB of RAM, 5 MB of disk space

•	Operating system required: Windows 95 or later, Windows NT 4.0 or later

•	Browser required: Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, Netscape Navigator 3.0 (32-bit) or later

•	Supports the Microsoft IntelliMouse

•	Windows compliant software uninstall procedure

•	Accessibility to the program from Windows Start/Find menu

Other specifications

•	Standard version Copernic 98 is free; a free 30-day trial copy is available for Copernic 98 Plus

•	Technical support available by e-mail at support@agents-tech.com

*	Option available when one of the following applications is installed: Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2 / NT 4.0 or later, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, and any application that updates COMCTL32.DLL to version 4.70 or later. The update facility is available from the Help/About menu.

**	Option available with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.


Acknowledgements

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Copernic is a registered trademark of Agents Technologies (MEB) Corp. Other product and company names are trademarks of their respective owners.


Search Progress Window

This window indicates the state of the search under way by means of progress bars and by indicating the number of links found by each search engine. When a connection is established with a search engine, it is highlighted.

Selected search engines that do not support quotation marks are not used when such symbols are present in the keywords of a search.

See also: Starting a Search.


Results Explorer Window

The Results Explorer Window allows you to browse found documents in an integrated browser window. This ergonomically designed window offers special features to consult found documents easier and faster. A special toolbar enables you to filter and sort search results in different ways.

Displaying a search report in Web page format also allows you to benefit from your browser, including printing results and the Copy and Paste functions.

Menu overview

There are five sections of menu commands:

· File

Open: Open the selected document in a new browser window

Save As: Save the currently opened document

Print: Print the content of the currently opened document

Add to Favorites...: Add the current page to the Favorites folder

Always Open from the Web: Always open document from the Web

Close: Close the window

· Edit

Cut: Remove the current selection and copy it onto the Clipboard

Copy: Copy the current selection onto the Clipboard

Paste: Insert the items you have copied or cut into the selected destination

Select All: Select all the text

Find (on this page): Search the current window for text

· View

Toolbar: Show or hide one or more of these toolbar's items: Standard Buttons, Address Bar, Filter Bar, Text Labels

Status Bar: Show or hide the status bar

Show: Show all, new, downloaded or refined documents. The button beside allows you to toggle the display of unreachable documents.

Sort by: Sort documents by their rank, title, address or date found, by ascending or descending order

Stop: Stop the current operation

Refresh: Refresh the currently opened Web page

Internet Options...: Enables you to change settings

· Go

Back: Go to the previous consulted page

Forward: Go to the next consulted page

Previous Document: Open the previous document

Next Document: Open the next document

Web Document: Open the document from its Web site

Search Results: Open the Search Results Page

· Help

About Copernic: Display information about Copernic version and copyrights

Toolbars overview

The functions available from the three Results Explorer toolbars give you quick access to the most frequently used features.

· The first toolbar shows eight buttons:

•	Back: Go to the previous page opened

•	Forward: Go to the next page opened

•	Stop: Stop the current operation

•	Refresh: Refresh the currently opened Web page

•	Print: Print the content of the currently opened page

•	Results: Open the Search Results Page

•	Previous: Open the previous document

•	Next: Open the next document

· The second toolbar offers two groups of functions:

•	Document: This drop-down list enables you to view the list of document titles for easy and efficient browsing between found documents.

•	Address: This field shows the address of the currently open page. The button to the right allows opening the currently open page into a new Browser window.

· The third toolbar, located at the bottom of the screen, offers two groups of functions:

•	Show: This drop-down list enables you to filter documents according to their state: all, new, downloaded and refined. The first button to the right allows you to enable or disable the display of checkmarked documents. The second button allows you to enable or disable the display of unreachable documents.

•	Sort by: This drop-down list enables you to sort found documents by four criteria: rank, title, address and date found.

•	rank: rank attributed to a document in terms of its degree of interest

•	title: title of the document

•	address: document address

•	date found: date of the search or last update

•	The two buttons to the right allow you to display document by sort order:

•	A/Z button: displays the documents in ascending order

•	Z/A button: displays the documents in descending order

See also: Search Results Page.


Format Views Window

This window shows four sections allowing you to personalize the found documents presentation on the main window.

•	Rows: Allows you to modify fonts of rows (type, style, size and script).

•	Visited documents: Allows you to modify the color of visited documents (basic or custom colors).

•	Description preview: Allows you to personalize the description preview of found documents. You may enable or disable the description preview and modify the number of lines and fonts (type, style, size, effect, color and script).

•	Grid lines: Allows you to disable or enable the display of grid lines between results shown on screen. You may also personalize the color of the grid lines (basic or custom colors).