Word: search
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing, you can now set up your own little e-commerce homestead on a corner of Amazon real estate called zShops. But much more important, Amazon's main search tool--that little text box in the upper-left-hand corner of the home page--has started pointing customers toward sites other than its own. "Think of a small-town merchant who suggests you might try someone else down the street," says Bezos, with his trademark earsplitting laugh...
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...
...just over a year ago, Amazon shelled out $180 million for a price-comparison site called junglee.com They tinkered around with its virtual database technology until relaunching it last week as the more prosaically named All Product Search. Wall Street was buying, sending Amazon's stock...
...trouble with bots that get sold to big corporations, not surprisingly, is that they tend to get a little compromised. In junglee's case, the ability to compare prices at other book sites seems to have disappeared. Type in Tom Clancy in Amazon's All Product Search, and there's no danger of your buying Rainbow Six from Barnes and Noble or Borders...
...just as he seemed on the verge of a great success, Nichols began losing weight. This time the diagnosis was stomach cancer. Nichols launched into a search for yet another treatment. But the malignant cells were too aggressive. "He just finally realized he wasn't going to come back from it," says Lynn. Nichols died in May 1996, at 43, but by then he knew the work was probably well enough along on FGN-1 for it to be there for his son and other kids...