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Among the most popular bots is MySimon, which brings in more than 1 million visitors a month, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. It boasts scanning more than 2,500 merchants for values on millions of products. Though MySimon does highlight some merchants in search results, customers can easily use a sort feature to arrange the list solely by price, a feature many other bots don't offer...
...solely on cheap prices to lure and hold fickle customers. That just deepens red ink without preventing shoppers from hopping to other sites with deeper discounts--to say nothing of auction venues like eBay. Online retailing "is not about the lowest price anymore," says Josh Goldman, the CEO of mySimon, a comparison-shopping site that describes more than 2,000 e-stores. What customers prize more, he says, are bells and whistles such as instant messaging, access to product specialists, and e-mail alerts of upcoming deals...
...most advanced of these agents, such as MySimon (http://www.mysimon.com/), can simultaneously present information on the sale of a particular product by thousands of Internet vendors. By instantly comparing the prices and features offered by these vendors, MySimon allows you to easily make the best purchasing decision. The result is the ability to easily comparison-shop a maximum of 10,000 vendors. Try doing that at your neighborhood mall...
...MySimon is not the only intelligent shopping agent in the game. Agents such as Jango (http://www.jango.com/) are beginning to partner with leading Internet search engines such as Excite and leading credit card companies such as Master-Card to put together an even easier framework for on-line shopping...
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