BotSpot: Shopping Bots

BotSpot Categories Shopping Bots	Also see CommerceBots.
ActiveBuyersGuide	This is a freestanding site that recommends products and merchants based on your requests. It also is an engine that powers a number of big Web shopping portals such as Lycos, Infoseek/GoNetwork, MySimon and DealTime. It is based on what the vendor calls Adaptive Recommendation Technology, which simulates the trade-offs each consumer makes as he or she make shopping decisions.
AllBookStores.com	This site compares prices on books at 30 online bookstores. You then can click on a link to buy the book from the store you choose. We were particularly impressed by the speed of this bot and its thoroughness -- it provides a total price, including shipping.
AuctionWatch	This site helps you manage and monitor lots of different auctions. It is unique in that it focus on more "traditional" auctions such as those done by physical auction houses.
Best Book Buys	Best Book Buys searches 26 online bookstores to help you find the lowest prices for your online book purchases. Searches the Web for who's got the books you want and at what price.
Bidder's Edge	Bidder's Edge can help you find great products, help you figure out what to pay and help you win. Bidder's Edge is a web site that provides "buying tools" and bots for people shopping at online auctions. You can search its database of product and pricing information and the database is continuously updated. You can also personalize these services to your individual needs with My Auctions and Deal Watch.
BidFind	BidFind - World Wide Web Auction Search. Thousands of items indexed daily from popular online auction sites visited by their agents.
BizRate.com	A comprehensive shopping comparison site offering access to thousands of products in a wide variety of categories.
BookFinder	BookFinder - your personal book shopping agent - is an online bookstore comparison shopping agent designed to allow consumers to make informed decisions about purchases. Several of the top bookstores online will be searched.
Bottom Dollar	Consumers choose between the eight product categories, enter a brand name or item, and click on the "go" button. Bottom Dollar's shopping bot works in the background to simultaneously query many online retailers and in about six seconds or so returns a list of retail outlets with the best prices on that product including a link to the order page.
bsilly.com	Searches auctions or online shopping sites in sixteen categories for the best prices. Very kids-oriented, great for finding that gift for the little one!
BuyBuddy	This comsumer-oriented price comparison bot shares technology with pcOrder to bring users a wide range of product reviews and comparisions. The site is very consumer-oriented, with a free membership designed to bring users a host of features, including weekly updates and Price Watch.
Buyer's Index	Buyer's Index is the Search Engine for Buyers. Search 11,000 Web shopping sites and North American mail order catalogs with over 93 million product offerings for individuals and businesses.
BuyerZone	This is a business-to-business portal at which businesses can search for the best prices on goods and services such as insurance, travel and office supplies. You can search for the best deals in all the categories and see a side-by-side comparison. It uses a single shopping cart for all products.
Clickthebutton	A downloadable application that sits on your computer and waits for you to find a product you're interested in. Then you just click a button to see price comparisons for the product, delivered by the PerpetualData product database.
CNET Shopper.com	CNET Shopper.com compares 1,000,000 prices on 100,000 products.
Copernic Shopper	A desktop shopping bot that integrates with Internet Explorer and launches detailed searches for prices and product reviews.
Consumer World	Product comparisons, reviews and pricing services.
CyberMall.com	Only the best online shopping malls, hot retail stores, and resources for Internet home shopping. Whether you're looking for megamalls, premium malls, or a good regional or specialty mall, this directory offers one of the best places to shop for the products you need.
DealCatcher	DealCatcher features hundreds of online coupons and thousands of local coupons to satisfy the most voracious bargain hunters.
DealTime	This site scours dozens of online stores for what you need, but keeps scouring and notifies you via e-mail or pager when it finds deals.
DestinationRx	DestinationRx is an online comparison shopping guide for pharmaceutical, health and wellness products. The site provides objective, unbiased product and price information on thousands of products from dozens of online drugstores and health-related websites.
EdgeGain	A plug-in for Internet Explorer that will search for alternative prices for any item you see in one of the many commerce sites EdgeGain tracks.
eSmarts	eSmarts is an Internet Guide with bots and shopping agents for bargain shopping on the Web. Find discount and bargain prices and reports on merchants. Buying guides covering auctions, banks, books, brokers, cars, computers, electronics, flowers, groceries, long distance, music, toys, travel and more.
e-botz.com	Part of an integrated solution for medical clinics in the U.S., phase one is a comparison shopping site for medical supplies.
Gearprice	If you are looking for something to make sweet music with, try this bot, designed to locate musical instruments and supplies.
GreaterGood.com	This shopping bot is remarkably fast, covering dozens of e-commerce sites fast enough that even those with modem connections won't drum their fingers. Plus, you can designate a percentage of your purchase totals to go to a charitable cause.
Kelkoo.com	A comparison shopping bot that looks for bargains at online stores based in the United Kingdom.
Lycos Shop	Shopping directory site of affiliate Web outlets. Merchant Match section lets the shopper set the purchase criteria and then lets merchants bid a proce based on the customer's desires. Not an instant comparision site, but pretty useful for those who are carefully checking all the options.
mySimon	mySimon uses VLA (Virtual Learning Agent) technology. That means Simon can actually imitate human navigational behavior and can be "taught" to shop at 1000s of merchants in hundreds of product categories on the Web. Simon shops in real time, so he always finds the right products, at the right place, at the best price.
NetMarket	NetMarket can save you money on virtually everything you want to buy. Their database of over 800,000 name brand products at wholesale prices offers the best selection on the Web.
PillBot	A great comparison tool for analyzing the prices of prescription drugs. Now you can find out who has the cheapest Prozac.
PrePal NEW!	This site tracks used musical instrument prices, updated every day.
PriceGrabber	A comparison shopping bot that features calculation of shipping and taxes in the final price of the product.
PriceScan	PriceScan is your guide to finding the best price on thousands of computer hardware and software products. The database consists of publicly available product and pricing information. Data is gathered from magazine ads, vendor catalogs, web sites etc. .Information is then presented in a searchable format.
Price Watch	Price Watch is the fastest way to find a great street price on a computer product. Type in the "search" box or click through category or product lists. The Price Watch Network allows retailers to advertise their prices in real time, using their proprietary Price Watch Info-Link system.
RoboShopper	RoboShopper is an add-in to Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer which makes online shopping fast and easy. Just tell RoboShopper what you are looking for and it will automatically query online stores and then display the results in a convenient report, so you can easily compare and make the best buying decision.
SalesHound	Not the usual bargain-hunting bot, this site compiles advertised sales and promotions from brick-and-mortar retailers in every major metropolitan area. The site is updated hourly.
SalesMountain	This site is for people who love sales. It finds items on sale at local stores, national chains as well as at online e-commerce sites. It can automatically look for sales and e-mail you to them as they occur. You can search by specific product, brand, category, store or location.
ShopAMEX	Shopping site geared for customers of American Express.
ShopBest.com	The comparison shopping engine covers more than 1,800 product categories.
Shopping Explorer	Shopping Explorer is a software program that helps you to shop on the Internet. It is so easy to use - you simply tell Shopping Explorer what you are looking for and it will search the web sites of hundreds of online merchants all over the world on your behalf. (Available in English and Danish)
ShoppingLN	This is a shopping portal that claims it enables you to shop "millions of stores for billions of products. It suffers a bit from a difficult-to-read interface, and it's closer to being a cross between a metasearcher and a shopping portal than an intelligent agent. Still, this site still is useful because it puts lots of shopping capabilities together in one place.
ShopOn	Another bot that scours the Web for deals. Works well, although its not markedly different than some of the other shopping bots.
SmartShop	This site not only compares prices, but also other factors such as shipping costs and special promotions. It then recommends the best overall values based.
StoreSearch	StoreSearch is the Internet Shopping Guide with easy search for all your shopping needs. Comprehensive listing of product categories, anchor stores, select stores, and major brands.
StreetPrices.com	StreetPrices.com searches more than 150 merchant sites to identify the best prices for computers, and personal electronic products. The site also provides graphs of price vs. time and email alerts when a product price falls to a user-specified target. The site's robots update prices every half hour, 24 hours a day.
StoreRunner.com	This site covers 1,000 brands and finds the best deals. It also will tell you where the items are sold locally, if you prefer bricks-and-mortar.
StoreScanner	A simple shopping bot that polls online merchants and auctions--as well as local merchants.
TechBargains	As the name implies, this site focuses on tech-related products. It scours the Web and provides highlights on its home page.
ValueFind	A comprehensive service that takes what you're looking for and searches for the best deal from retail vendors, auctions and classified ads. You can limit the search to a specific price range and to certain sites. You can create a "want list" that searches on an on-going basis and notifies you when it finds what you want at the price you want to pay.
WebMarket	WebMarket searches the top online stores to bring you the best prices on the items you are looking for. Just pick a category and start your search.
Yahoo! Shopping	As close as you'll come to an on-line shopping mall. This site is short on bots to automate your shopping process, but it has zillions of stores and a comprehensive shopping cart system that works with all of them.