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>>From philip.helsel@Central.Sun.COM Mon Feb 10 18:12 CST 1997
>Subject: Internet News 1997-02
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>Date: 01-02-97
>Source: NewsBytes
>Subject: Free Search Engine Reads 75 Mil Files From Internet
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>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.
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>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."
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>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.
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>"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."
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>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.
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>"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.
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>(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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