Robots and Agents
My Bot Page
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.
Bot Spot
AGENTS AND ROBOTS ON THE INTERNET
- Airfare.com - find discount airline prices for selected destinations
- BotSpot - the spot for all bots and intelligent agents
- Bottom Dollar - finds the lowest prices on the web - fast! Just pick a category, type in a title, and start searching
- CareerSite Virtual Agent - search for positions which match skills and career objectives
- 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.
- Medical World Search - Medical Intelligence At Your Fingertips
- 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
- Newzbot! - public Usenet resources for the masses
- 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.
- WebMethods -automate the Web
