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Québec (Canada), Wednesday, February 27, 2002 - Copernic, a leading provider of information solutions for businesses, announced today the release of its newest business software solution: Copernic Empower. Combining sophisticated searching, indexing, tracking, and document summarizing technologies, this server application provides companies with the means to maximize their information assets, consequently making these organizations more competitive and profitable.

The Copernic Empower solution offers a company's employees several significant advantages. For example, Copernic Empower offers a single access point to the firm's information assets, makes unstructured information easily accessible, provides an alert mechanism that is triggered whenever the contents of Web sites are modified, generates intelligent summaries of documents and Web pages, and automates a variety of search operations.

In terms of technology, the solution developed by Copernic is divided into four complementary modules:

Indexing Module Federated Search Module Tracking Module Summarization Module

For more information, please visit www.copernic.com.