Ecommerce Bots
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Topics covered:
Agent Toolkits
Auction Bots
Directories. Not bots, but general infromation
sources.
Employment Bots
Financial Bots
Finder Bots. Locate people or businesses
Filter Bots
General
Geneology Bots
Geography Bots
Health Bots
Mail Bots. Handling your email
Message Bots
News Bots
Postal Bots. Look up ZIP codes
Price Bots
Search Bots
Shopping Bots
Telephone Directory Bots
Translation Bots
Travel Agents
Weather Bots
Web Bots. Info about the WWW
AgentBuilder. From
Reticular Systems, Inc.
COMPARISON OF
AGENT-BUILDING TOOLS
INDEX OF AGENT
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Auction Watchers.
Searches auction lists for best prices by product category.
AuctionUniverse. Auction
tracker
Bidder's Edge. Watches auctions and
specific items up for bid.
BidFind. Keyword search of web auctions.
eBay.
edeal.com.
FirstAuction.
surplusauction.com. (Egghead)
uBid.com.
Virtual Job Fair. Search for companies, articles about job hunting, job fairs. From Westech.
CNNfn. Quotes,
charts and finincial news from CNN.
Discover Brokerage. Stock quotes.
EDGAR Online. SEC filings.
Hoover's Online. Company information.
INVESTools. Quotes and stock
analysis reports.
justquotes. Financial
information bot that finds information about publicly traded companies. EXCELLENT.
Market Guide. Stock quotes and
summarized financial data.
NetProphet.
Free download of stock monitor from Neural Applications Corp.
NewsALERT. Quotes and most recent
news stories about companies.
NewsPage. Quotes and company news
from News Edge Corp.
Personal Stock Monitor. Free download
from DTLink Software.
Quicken.com quotes.
Historicals from Intuit, Inc. based on S&P quotes.
Quote Server. Stock quotes
from CheckFree. Can request up to 5 quotes simultaneously
SalomonSmithBarney.
Stock and mutual fund quotes and charts.
Silicon Investor. Quotes,
charts and news stories.
StockAgent Pro. Free
download from Insanely Great Software.
StockMaster. Historical stock
quotes from StockMaster.com, Inc.
Stock Point. Stock quotes and analysis
from stockpoint.com.
Yahoo! Finance. Stock quotes and
company-specific news.
iAtlas. Filter web searches by business size and category.
ClassMates.
Find high school classmates. Free registration required.
infospace. Web directory
Internet Address Finder. Find people by
email address or domain.
PeopleLink.
Finds people in communities on the Web.
Switchboard. Includes home page
addresses.
WhoWhere?
From Lycos.
Zip2. From AltaVista.
Web robot database. Links to 200 robots.
Geneology BotsAncestry.com. Family surname search.
MapBlast!
Locates nearby businesses.
Mapquest. View maps of
any area in the U.S.
NASA Satellite Photos
Switchboard. Find businesses near a
given address.
LogLink
Logistics Links
truck.net
Directories
Manufacturing Yellow
Pages (manufacturing.net)
ICQ. Instant messaging, people locator.
Business Wire.
Very recent news stories selectable by date and region.
DigitalCity. Searches the country for news
about specific cities.
foxnews.com. Create your own newscast
from video clips.
HP Instant Delivery.
Examines the Web for stories of interest. Requires free download.
Los Angeles Times. Search by subject, keyword,
ticker symbol.
Morning Paper. Summarizes news from
different sources. Requires free download.
PR Newswire. Search capability by subject,
date, industry, keyword, company.
San Jose Mercury. Search by keyword, company
name, ticker symbol.
Yahoo!news
ZIP+4 Code Lookup. U.S. Postal Service.
BestBookBuys.com.
Compares 26 booksellers.
bottomdollar
infospace. Price comparison bot.
PriceSCAN. Comparative pricing of
books, computers, electronics, movies, music, sporting goods and video games.
Price Watch. Computer hardware and
software and consumer electronics.
Altavista
AskJeeves
BigHub.com. Metasearcher
google
Hotbot
InferenceFind. Searches for websites
based on keywords.
Lycos
Metacrawler
Northern Light
Shopping Bots
All-Internet Shopping Directory.
Poor search engine.
AltaMax Online Shopper.
Sort by price, product & vendor for a wide varity of products. Free trial
download.
Auction Watchers. Searches
auction lists for best prices.
BizWeb. Guide to more
than 43,000 companies in 200 categories. Excellent search capability.
bottomdollar. Organized by
category, e.g. kitchen items.
Brandpoint. More than 500 retailers
of brand-name products.
buy.com. Shopping portal with price
comparisons
BuyDirectory. Search in multiple
languages.
Buyers Index. Over 96 million
products from 13,000 websites.
CompareNet. Extensive search by brand name.
ComputerShopper.com. Sale
and auction of computer products by ZDnet.
CyberMall.com. Navigation to specilty
online malls.
DealPilot. Books, music, movies.
Formerly Acses.
Frictionless Value Shopper.
Allows specification of feature preferences.
jango.com. (Excite)
KillerApp. Extensive computer
shopping bot.
mySimon. Categorized keyword shopping
search.
NetMarket. Huge
directory with "HaggleZone" for negotiating.
oneseek.com. Directory with
"WebChains"
Planet Retail. Huge
directory.
priceline.com. You name your price
for home financing, new cars, hotel rooms and airline tickets.
RoboShopper. Finds
sites offering products by category.
Shopfind. Locates by category sites
offering products online.
shopper.com. Limited primarily to
computers and consumer electronics. From CNET.
Shopping Explorer.
Parallel search for products. Requires free download.
Shopping.com. An AltaVista company.
Spree.com. 400,000 members receive cash
rebates on purchases.
StoreSearch. Products from 100,000
stores.
TechShopper. For technical
products. From CMP.
Top 10 Guide.
WebMarket. Performs price comparisons.
Yahoo!Shopping. Advertises
"thousands of stores, millions of products."
555-1212.com.
Includes reverse lookup.
AnyWho (AT&T) Includes reverse
lookup.
BigBook. Nationwide Yellow Pages.
BigYellow. National Yellow Pages.
Requires state to be specified.
Global Yellow-Pages.
International directories from 40 countries.
Infobel. Yellow pages
from 182 countries!
Infospace. Personal search, Internet
search, shopping search.
cheaptickets.com.
Expedia Travel
Thomas Cook. Travel services;
traveler's checks
Travelocity. Based on the SABRE
airline reservation system.
Weather
Channel. Forecasts, radar maps
Yahoo!Weather
Link Popularity. FInd the sites that link to a given site.