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INTERNET SEARCH TOOL READY FOR JAPANESE SPEAKING CONSUMERS Available via NEC's BigGlobe http://www.biglobe.ne.jp and for PC Download at http://www.copernic.co.jp TOKYO, Japan (May 20, 1999)- Japanese speaking consumers enter a new era of Internet use today with the release of CopernicLITE Japanese and CopernicPlus Japanese, Internet search tools that dramatically improve the Japanese Internet experience. After e-mail, Internet searching is the most popular reason why consumers use the Internet. Copernic Technologies Inc., Quebec-based developers of innovative search agent technologies, announced the release, which is the first of its kind in the Japanese speaking market. Dennis Bracy, President of Seattle-based RXL Pulitzer, which localizes and distributes Copernic in Japan, said: "We wanted to bring the very best Internet search tool to Japan, but it had to be truly Japanese, and Copernic has met this goal." Today, fully one third of the millions of Japanese speaking Internet users say finding what they are looking for is their single biggest problem. Copernic changes all that, instantly. Copernic, a very popular search tool launched in 1997, has been available in English and French since its debut. Copernic Japanese, makes Internet searching faster, cheaper and more reliable may be downloaded at http://www.copernic.co.jp. The English version is available at http://www.copernic.com/free99.html and the French version http://www.copernic.com/fr/free99.html. German and Spanish versions are due in the coming months. With Copernic, find out exactly what you are looking for by simultaneously consulting up to 32 Internet search engines at once. It uses predetermined categories, allowing targeting of inquiries in over 125 major search engines grouped in about 20 categories such as The Web, Newsgroups, E-mail Addresses, Health, Finance, Games, Kids, Movies, Music, Recipes, Science, Sports and Travel. For example, it provides access to AltaVista, Deja News, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, LookSmart, WebCrawler and Yahoo!. The Japanese version includes 54 Japanese search engines, including the most popular ones such as Yahoo!, Goo and Hole in the Wall. Results returned by engines are stored and organized on disk for better search management and faster browsing. Copernic eliminates duplicate entries and then displays the results in a user-friendly format. The results are presented in order of importance based the user's search request. The entire process happens very quickly, and Copernic lets the user save every search for future reference. Copernic searches many Internet sites and information sources simultaneously, eliminates duplicate entries and then displays the results in a user-friendly format. The results are presented in order of importance based the user's search request. The entire process happens very quickly, and Copernic lets the user save every search for future reference. Japanese speaking consumers have two choices for this Internet search engine: CopernicLITE and CopernicPlus. CopernicLITE is free. NEC, Japan's largest computer company, is including CopernicLITE with new NEC computers, and NEC will distribute CopernicLITE to consumers through magazines and other distribution channels in coming months. Consumers who already have a PC can download CopernicLITE at http://www.copernic.co.jp. CopernicLITE takes only a few minutes to download on most computers. CopernicLITE features several Japanese search engines, including goo, Yahoo! Japan, Hole-in-One and Dragon Search, as well as twenty English language sites. For greater performance, Japanese speaking consumers can select CopernicPlus, which retails for $3,980Y, or $33 (U.S). CopernicPlus can be purchased at BigGlobe, NEC's retail store and Web site, (http://www.biglobe.ne.jp) and at http://www.copernic.co.jp. CopernicPlus searches dozens of sites simultaneously for general search requests, and CopernicPlus has special channels to search for information in specific areas such as personal finance. Consumers who begin using CopernicLITE can upgrade to CopernicPlus easily on the Internet. Copernic was developed exclusively for the Japanese language using the world's most honored Internet search software. Copernic is named in honor of the famous scientist, Nicolas Copernicus, who discovered that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. This major scientific breakthrough brought order to the Universe, the Copernic brings order to the Internet. In the West, Copernic has been honored with dozens of awards and accolades from many prestigious computer magazines, general circulation media, and by the general public, who honored Copernic with "Shareware of the Year" award in 1998.
ABOUT RXL PULITZER
ABOUT COPERNIC TECHNOLOGIES INC.
For More Information:
Michael DeCesare
Yasuhiro Nakamura
Alan Wallace, CEO
Tony Winders, President
Selacia, Director, Public Relations
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