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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shopping agents, better known as bots, are practically prehistoric in Internet terms. They've been around in one form or another for four years. Their basic purpose is to search the Web and compare all the prices you can possibly pay for the same item, making you an expert bargain hunter in a single click. Once considered a threat to e-business--after all, sellers benefit when the consumer has incomplete knowledge of prices--bots are now on the buying list of every major player in the Internet industry. They're into their second generation and much improved. And they...
What Maes predicts, you had better believe. After all, she was the pioneer of the earliest shopping-bot technology known as collaborative filtering, which became popularized as Amazon's ubiquitous "people who liked this product also bought X" link. Now she's helping to bring us an e-commerce world based on the Priceline.com model--in other words, every seller will act like an airline with constantly changing pricing and the ability to negotiate. It's auto haggling...
...need to have done 200 or more laser procedures to be fully proficient. When choosing a doctor, recommendations from previous patients are a better guide than come-on advertisements. "Very intelligent people make poor decisions when choosing a physician for plastic surgery," says Dr. Tina Alster, a Washington dermatologist known as Dr. Fix It, who sees an average of two patients a week with laser-burn scars. "They believe all those hideous commercials." Finally, make sure the doctor is doing the work, not an aesthetician...
...entire staff or Response, one of the five peer counseling groups on campus. We are concerned that Janis's piece gives the impression that there are no resources on campus to help those concerned about, affected by and dealing with these traumatic issues. We want to make it known that we are one such resource and serious about helping the community...
Interest in Science B-29, more commonly known as "Sex," exceeded the capacity of its 500-seat Science Center B lecture hall. Instructors held a lottery to determine who was allowed to enroll. The course hadn't been lotteried for the past two years...