A softbot-based interface to the Internet
Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld · Communications of the ACM · 1994
A SoFtbot-6asedInterSace to the Internet he Intemrt Softhot (software robot) is a fully implemented AI agent developed at the University of M'ashington [.i].It uses a Unix shpll and the World-M'ide Web to interact with a wide range