Q. What is a Bot?
A. The word is derived from 'robot', and refers to a computer program that gathers information or performs a service, usually on some regular, predetermined schedule. A bot (sometimes called an agent) typically searches the Internet, gathers information relevant to your query or interest, and presents it on a scheduled basis, hourly, daily, weekly, etc.
DealPilot - checks out prices, availability, plain shipping time and shipping costs of your book at over 20 online stores with over 20,000,000 pricing informations simultaneously
FinanceWise - assists in accessing banking and finance information on the World Wide Web
healthfinder - a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the US government.
Namedroppers.com - You can search for multiple keywords within a domain name and get a return list of every registered domain name in the .com, .net., .org, and .edu zones that has those keywords anywhere within the domain name.
News Index - personalized news delivered daily via email
Plangent - a software realizing intelligent agents which can work on the Java language system.
PriceWatch - helps do comparison shopping for computer parts with prices ranked from less expensive to most expensive
RoboShopper - automatically query online stores and then display the results in a convenient report, so you easily compare and make the best buying decision
Search Engine Watch - information about many search engines, including comparisons.
WebFerret - freeware assists in location information on the Internet; searches can be narrowed bychoosing to match any keyword, match all keywords or by submitting the keywords as an exact phrase
Webglimpse -search engine for finding information in a related web of pages.
