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knowbot

In computing, a program that will search a system or a network, such as the Internet, seeking and retrieving information on behalf of a user and reporting back when it has found it. An example is the Knowbot Information Service, which can process users' queries by e-mail.



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Comparisons with other systems continually suggest adapting cataloging practices to a world populated by computer robots, knowbots, and other intelligent software programs.
Resources description in the digital age by Younger, Jennifer A. / Library Trends
Those knowbots, or information valets, or however those automated retrievers of information will be known, of course entail the use of expert systems; expert systems, in turn, are based on the advice of experts--the ways in which experts respond to queries, or solve a problem, or perform a particular operation.
Plus ca change... by Farber, Evan Ira / Library Trends
This author first read about demon knowbots in an article by Steinberg (1990):
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