But Copernic's real strength is in their Agent and Summarizer products. Copernic Agent, available in free Basic, and paid Personal and Professional versions, is a desktop based meta-search tool for web. With it, you can search multiple search engines simultaneously, with all results sorted by relevance. The more advanced version, more options you have for searching, organizing, filtering, and saving results.

The Copernic Summarizer can improve your efficiency by creating summaries of important text portions of web pages, PDF documents, email, and Word files. You can even have a small floating pane on your desktop that instantly offers web page summaries. As with their Agent software, you can save and email summarization results.

Agent Pro and Summarizer together offer a powerful research tool that could offer Internet marketers an advantage.

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Telecommunications and information technology are key components in our ability to respond to disaster. As real time information is collected, it is available immediately to all participants in relief effort. Other technology – in particular military technology, can easily serve a duel use purpose in a disaster. The same troop transports designed to carry soldiers to war can carry refugees from a disaster. The same photo reconnaissance aircraft used to spy on enemies can provide a clear view of extent of damage. The same technology used to collect electronic intelligence can locate attempts to use mobile phones, radios, and even audio signals of people stranded in remote areas. Infrared scanning used to identify enemy soldiers in a bunker or building can just as easily locate a family stranded in a jungle.

If you compare current response to Indian Ocean tsunami to effects of tsunami damage following eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883 (http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Vocano1883Krakatoa.html ), you can see extent of damage from that disaster was not even known for several decades.

In most cases disaster cannot be predicted. We are making progress predicting earthquakes, hurricanes, and eruptions – however science is no closer to effective disaster prediction than we are in fully understanding human genome. Through effective use of communications, information technology, and duel use military/civilian technology transfer, we are getting much closer to reducing level of pain following an event.

2005 will be a big year in further exploiting potential of Internet and communications-related technology. Given positive moves toward regional cooperation in activities such as MPAT, we should be encouraged our governments understand need and role of technology in planning – was well as responding – to regional disaster.