>From philip.helsel@Central.Sun.COM Mon Feb 10 18:12 CST 1997
Subject: Internet News 1997-02
Date: 01-02-97
Source: NewsBytes
Subject: Free Search Engine Reads 75 Mil Files From Internet
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1997 JAN 31 (NB) -- By Patrick
McKenna. Popular search engines such as Excite, Infoseek, Yahoo, and
others are proficient and relatively fast at finding content on the
World Wide Web. The Internet still consists of two other major
components, file transfer protocol (ftp) and newsgroups, which are
not as easily searched. Filez, a startup, says the company's ftp
search engine covers more than 75 million files of software on the
Internet.
Before the Web came into existence a majority of Internet activity
after electronic mail centered on downloading files from ftp sites.
"Today, some experts say 20 to 35 percent of all Internet traffic is
still related to ftp," said Filez founder, Michael Robertson.
"However, while accessing ftp files has become easier, finding where
those files are located remained a problem. That is, until Filez came
along."
Web surfers can jump on Filez from http://www.filez.com , the
company's Web site. The Filez engine facilitates searches for
software updates, games, graphics, sounds, movies, audio files and
more. Users can search the more that 5,000 ftp sites indexed by Filez
or search by category such as Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 and others.
Searches can also be qualified by a company name.
"Finding and downloading a file used to be difficult. You could spend
all day hoping to connect to a specific ftp server and then go
through its directory looking for a file, only to find you have to
search another server," added Robertson. "Filez eliminates those
problems. We only direct you to the server when you know what you
want and where it is."
Filez is based on an advertising model, meaning the service is free
to all users. Microsoft and Sony were sufficiently impressed with
Robertson's search engine to become charter advertisers.
"Already, we have had Filez users tell us they found a game or font
or graphics file in minutes, after looking for months to find it by
other means," said Robertson. Filez is available now.
(19970131/Press Contact: Michael Robertson, Filez, tel 619-581-1931;
Reported by Newsbytes News Network: http://www.newsbytes.com
/FILEZ970131/PHOTO)
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