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Previous BotSpot of the Week Awardee Copernic Copernic is an intelligent agent that carries out your net-searches by consulting simultaneously the most important search engines on the Web. It features a history of your searches, making sure that the precious information found on the Internet is always classified and handy.
Previous BotSpot of the Week Awardee CyBot CyBot is your personal web marketing agent. CyBot is a client side web-crawler with AI capabilities allowing unlimited capability for keywords and you can assign value to the keywords. CyBot can also find email addresses of sites that you are interested in. Trial version available.
Debriefing Debriefing is a meta search bot that forwards queries in parallel to selected search engines, collates the results, and ranks them. It removes duplicates, and gives you the most significant domain name for your search. The PersonalScanner option allows you to see summaries of all the sites behind your links, and watch for special resources (pictures, sounds & videos, e-mail addresses, links, including mp3, wav, mpeg files...), through a small Java applet.
ACORN ACORN (Agent-Based Community Oriented Retrieval Network) is an architecture for the sharing, search, and provision of information across networks (presently concentrating on the World Wide Web). In this architecture, several agents work together to ensure that their users get the information that they are interested in, both when they ask for it (a traditional search) and in between times (the agents perform a kind of community-based browsing, if the user wants them to).
Advanced Search Facility (ASF) The goal of Advanced Search Facility (ASF) is complimentary to the goal of the Global Information Locator Service (GILS) - to make it easy for people to find information of all kinds, in all media, in all languages, over time. Specifically ASF implements a scaleable, distributed search and retrieval capability and permits the development of intelligent agents to query large collections of mixed-mode data (e.g., text, geospatial metadata and bibliographic references). 
Previous BotSpot of the Week AwardeeAlkaline Search Engine Alkaline Search Engine is a UNIX/NT search bot designed for medium sized sites of several hundred to several thousand web pages. Alkaline will of course work with bigger sites and with the entire Internet as well, but a huge dedicated server or a MPP cluster is strongly advised. Alkaline was designed to perform superfast searching and reasonable indexing. Alkaline is free for noncommercial sites and individuals.
All-in-One
Search Page
This site is a compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the Internet. Bot search by World Wide Web, General Interest, Specialized Interest, Software, People, News/Weather, Publications/Literature, Technical Reports, Documentation, Desk Reference, Other Interesting Searches/Services.
Alta Vista Search Alta Vista gives you access to the largest Web index: 30 million pages found on 275,600 servers, and four million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. 
ASPSeek r e v i e w, click here ASPSeek is an Internet search engine, written in C++ using the STL library. It consists of an indexing robot, a search daemon, and a CGI search frontend. It can index as many as a few million URLs and search for words and phrases, use wildcards, and do a Boolean search. Search results can be limited to time period given, site or Web space (set of sites) and sorted by relevance (PageRanks are used) or date.
Ask Jeeves! Ask Jeeves! allows you to ask a question to find out what you want by simply typing in a question and click on "ask".
BDDBot BDDBot is a free web bot, search engine and web server written entirely in Java.
BFS Spider The Best-First Search (BFS) bot/spider will crawl the Web in search of pages which interest you. You tell the spider what type of homepages you are interested in by giving it URLs (http addresses) to start from and it will surf the Net for you by following links, looking at those pages and reporting back to you on homepages of interest to you. Please allow several minutes for the spider to do the real-time dynamic search.
Previous BotSpot of the Week AwardeeBIG: A Resource-Bounded
Information Gathering
Agent
BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent proposal that plans to gather information to support a decision process, reasons about the resource trade-offs of different possible gathering approaches, extracts information from both unstructured and structured documents, and uses the extracted information to refine its search and processing activities.
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BINGOOO is a search, comparison and communication browser providing data, not links.
Up to 31 agents search many sources at the same time and bring you fast results and concise information. Even the shopping databases, which are usually not queried by normal search engines, get searched. Query results can be compared, organized, printed or mailed as HTML or Excel sheets.

BIRD BIRD: Bibliometric Retrieval of Documents.BIRD is a bibliometric query by example search engine. Given a set of pages of interest to the user, it finds a set of similar documents by following and analyzing citation links.
BullsEye Previous BotSpot of the Week Awardee
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BullsEye is a unique desktop application that allows users to efficiently find, track and manage information on the Internet just like they do on their desktop. BullsEye uses a collection of search engines that search both the visible and invisible web bringing back relevant results.
CIFI CIFI: The Computer Science Citation Finder is an experiment in using the knowledge engineering approach for building Web Agents. CIFI is a ProLog (with LogicWeb extensions) program which automatically searches for citations of specific Computer Science publications on the World Wide Web using multiple resources.
Citeline Citeline is the first Internet research software designed specifically for pharmaceutical and health technology professionals. Citeline Professional systematically identifies and organizes Web sites of most value to healthcare industry professionals, providing access to more than 90 million pages ordinarily invisible to traditional search engines. Its Site Monitor function provides ongoing, automatic retrieval of new results from the Internet, and its Confidential Search capability protects the company's interests.
Class Acme.Spider A web-robot class that is an Enumeration class that transverses the web starting at a given URL. It fetches HTML files and parses them for new URLs to look at. All files it encounters, HTML or otherwise, are returned by the nextElement() method as an URLConnection.
CLEVER Searching The CLEVER Project at IBM's Almaden Research Center emphasis is on finding a small set of documents that represent the most authoritative information on the requested subject. CLEVER builds on Jon Kleinberg's HITS (Hypertext-Induced Topic Search) algorithm, which seeks to find authoritative sources (Authorities) of information on the web, together with sites (Hubs) featuring good compilations of such authoritative sources.
ClientSearch ClientSearch.java version is a search engine for sites that cannot host CGI scripts...an applet with complete information including download and install instructions.
CollegeBOT CollegeBOT is part of CollegeNET and is a search bot dedicated to indexing and searching education and education related pages. CollegeBOT only searches educational sites and can be used to search for the latest academic research, admissions information and updates as well as student home pages.
Combine Combine is an open system for harvesting and threshing (indexing) Internet resources. The name is derived from the combine-harvester since they perform their jobs in similar way. A User's Guide giving a basic description of the design of Combine and instructions on how to setup and run along with a more technical guide for those who want to know more about the internal design of Combine - are available at this site.
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