6: Shopbots for E-com Flashcards
1
Q
What are bots ? What are they alternatively called ?
A
Computer programs visiting web-sites.
Also called agents, spiders, crawlers, robots, softbots, botnets.
2
Q
What is the activity of collecting information from web pages called ?
A
Harvesting.
3
Q
How much of all web traffic is made up of bots ?
A
Half of all traffic.
4
Q
Example application of bots ?
A
- Find a particular product
- Compare products
- Harvest data
- DDos attack
5
Q
Classification of bots ?
A
- Chatterbots: talk to humans in natural language
- Commercial intermediaries: act in between 2+ companies, brokering deals
- Government bots: help citizens obtain data or fulfill legal obligatons
- News bots: retrieving news stories
- Newsgroup bots: screen abusive language in posts and comments at many forums
- Update bots: alert users about new releases or (un)expected changes on a website
- Web-developer bots: check if links are current
6
Q
Product brokering ?
A
- Alerting users to new releases
- Recommending products based on past purchases
7
Q
Merchant brokering ?
A
- Bot compares shopping across a range of potential suppliers, collecting and analysing data to present to user.
kayak. com
8
Q
Negotiating bot
A
Enters auctions or undertakes negotiations on behalf of human user, within parameters set by the user.
9
Q
What are product or merchant brokering types of bots called ?
A
Shopbots
