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Why fool with GRUNTS when you can use the GENERAL?

Nov 3, 2005 11:32PM PST

I don't understand why everyone doesn't just get a copy of COPERNIC AGENT and be done with it. It comes in 3 versions... Basic which is FREE, Personal and Professional. (www.copernic.com)

I've used Copernic for years... it's a META Search engine which means it takes your search request and turns around and sends it to as many as 17 of the major search engines SIMULTANEOUSLY, receives the replies, organizes them in a hierarchy, and presents the results to you in an annotated list. All you have to do is click on the result and PRESTO! you are taken to the link. The whole thing works as a standalone as well as from within your browser.

Copernic does much, much more than this but I've never needed it's capabilities (for example, it keeps a log of all the searches you've done so you can go back to one if you want).

If I were in a job where searching the internet was important Copernic would be the FIRST software I'd install.

This sounds like a commercial but I have no connection whatever with Copernic except as a paying, very satisfied user. (Google is not included in the standard issue Copernic, likely because of some legal mumbojumbo from Google's lawyers, but if you're nice to Copernic in an email they will perhaps send you the simple instructions to add Google to your list of engines it uses.) All in all, Copernic out-Googles Google by a long shot. Even the mighty Google doesn't find everything.

So as I asked in the Subject line, why use only ONE search engine when you can simultaneously use 17 or more with no more effort or expense and find all that stuff that any one of them misses?

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