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To: OtherChap who wrote (15663)	9/2/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) of 164684

Shop-Bots are an infant technology that has just begun to develop and spread. At it's simplest (current form) it is little more than mostly a brute force catalog indexed using mostly available and well developed database technologies. At it's most developed state (future) it will become several offerings that probably will use industry accepted data exchange constructs and user controlled profiling information to "understand" the individual user and respond to his/her needs specifically - it will know more what you or your loved ones might want for Christmas better than your wife or mother! The Web Bots will remind you of events such as B'days and holidays and suggest items suitable for the occassion for each person you have on your list to shop for. And it will point you to reviews, user chat boards/comments, company and web merchant sites. And, of course, they will do an excellent job at providing comparitive price and service information. Will people use Web Bots increasingly in the future? Several studies and common sense say so: they will make it convenient to buy things you need at the best prices and service levels.

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