In addition to the Web search engines, e-mail directories, news sites, and the three standard online shopping tools (buy books, computer hardware, and computer software), the Plus and Pro releases of Copernic 2000 add a number of specialized search channels, with channel sets currently available for business, encyclopedias, finance, files and downloads, games, jobs, kids, learning, life, movies, MP3 and music downloads, newswire, news archives, software, sports, technology, travel, and more.
Like the standard shopping tools, each of the specialized channel sets scour targeted Web sites to find specific information for you; for example, the movies channel set searches Web sites like HollywoodOnline, the Internet Movie Database, and Moviefinder.com to find specific information about movies and actors/actresses. Users of the Plus and Pro releases can also add their own customized channel sets as well as download free channel sets from the Copernic Web site.
Additional features found only in the $79.95 Pro release include scheduling capabilities for automatically updating and refining searches, e-mail notifications sent to you when new search information is found, an integrated spelling checker to help you spell your search keywords correctly, a tool that will automatically remove dead links upon search completion, and an option that can automatically download and refine your search results upon completion.
