| The Impact of Legal Challenges on the Evolution of Web-based Intelligent Agents (2009) | |||||||||||
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| Shopbots and Metabots are two Web-based intelligent agents that emerged since1994 with the popularity of the Web. Both agent categories experienced impacts from lawsuits dueto their innovative ways of information collection. Though the nature of their information collectionmethods was the same – which is extracting data from other websites - shopbots generally receivedfavourable rulings while metabots received the opposite. As a result, shopbots become a dominantB2C ecommerce category nowadays while metabots-enabled ecommerce only exists in certain nichemarkets. This paper intends to explore the validity of the legal measures related and demonstratesthat the legal force has a major impact on the development of Web technologies and the businessmodels they later supported. | |||||||||||
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