| The Impact of Legal Challenges on the Evolution of Web-based Intelligent Agents (2008) | |||||||||||
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| Shopbots and Metabots are two Web-based intelligent agents that emerged since 1994 with the popularity of the Web. Both agent categories experienced impacts from lawsuits due to their innovative ways of information collection. Though the nature of their information collection methods were the same – which is extracting data from other websites - shopbots generally received favorable rulings while metabots received the opposite. As a result, shopbots become a dominant B2C ecommerce category nowadays while metabots-enabled ecommerce only exists in certain niche markets. This paper intends to explore the validity of the legal measures related and demonstrates that the legal force has a major impact on the development of Web technologies and the business models they later supported. | |||||||||||
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