>>Soon Shop Bots will be on every portal site, many specialty
>>shopping service sites and many individual sites. The web will be
>>swamped with them. Come to think of it, much of the Amazon is a
>>swamp or jungle - Amazon.com may soon find itself up to its
>>eyeballs (increasing losses) in alligators (Shop Bots).
Just in case you forgot, AMZN bought Junglee - a company that
makes shopping bots. Its customers include yahoo travel,
hotbot, visa shopping guide by yahoo, gomarket, snap, lycos, more
than 550 employers, 80 merchants, and 40 portals,
to deliver more than 90,000 job listings and more than 15 million
items for purchase.
Bot success depends on many factors. These include the number of
merchants enrolled and the number of users of the bots. Take a look
at the top 20 websites to find which are Junglee clients. Now
pick Junglee's competitors and count their clients too. And then
tell me that the web will be swamped with sucessful bots. |
