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shopping agent
noun
Shopping bot
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The Interactive Fuzzy Interval Reasoning method is used to design the Web shopping agent.
The offending Web site let users enter what compact disc they wanted; then the site's "shopping agent" would quickly visit all the other Internet sites that sell CDs, checking for price and availability.
Smart phones now have bar code and QR code readers that allow the phone to act as a scanner (to find the exact product), research assistant (find the best price online, check product ratings) and shopping agent (buy the product on the spot).
In June the company made a B2B splash when it launched Free Trade Zone, which includes a database of information on 12 million parts, a comprehensive shopping agent and an electronic marketplace where buyers and suppliers can transmit, transact and discuss RFQs.
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In a sense, NetMarket and Shopping.com are shopping agents themselves.
But they'll be utterly decimated by the shopping agents!
First-time buyers and corporate transfers are also shopping, agents said.
Meanwhile, those of us who know how bad we are at negotiating things will just send out our Marty-type shopping agents to do our deal making.
In the simulations so far, the shopping agents produce profound price swings -- what the experts call "roller-coaster pricing" -- as they instantaneously respond to conditions.
Pretty soon, prices will move so fast, mere humans won't be able to keep up, so we'll have digital shopping agents like Marty to buy stuff for us.
James Button of SmithStreet, a consultancy, reports a well established piece of etiquette: "You must let friends know when you are going overseas," and take along an empty suitcase.Many Chinese also use online shopping agents, who aggregate requests and bring back foreign goods.
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