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Table 8.3
Sample information fi ltering agents

Name Description Reference
Search pad An advanced bot that fi nds and http://www.searchpad.com
categorizes relevant information
based on the users preferences,
also learning from them
Copernic An agent that carries out net http://copernic.com
searches by simultaneously
consulting the most important
search engines on the web
Citizen 1 Finds thousands of the best http://www.download.com/PC/
databases on the Internet and Result/TitleDetail/
indexes them into a hierarchy of 0,4,0-21278-g.html
fi les, making the Internet look like
an extension of a PC fi le system
NetAttachePro v1.0 A “ second generation web agent ” http://www.tympani.com/
which features a powerful
information-fi ltering intelligent
agent that organizes off-line
browsing

Table 8.4
Examples of personalized news services

Name Description Reference
myCNN Personalized news service http://my.cnn.com
Excit News Tracker Pulls information from a http://nt.excite.com
collection of databases
Infoseek Personal News Personalized news service http://www.infoseek.com/
news?pg=personalize.html
Dogpile Fast, effi cient news service that http://www.dogpile.com
draws upon a large database for
its searches