Automated Price Comparison Shopping Search Engine PriceHunter
Elwin Chai, Rick Jones, Zachary G. Ives · 2003
In this paper, we explore the possibility of creating a product search engine that is able to dynamically find commercial sites, independent of merchant feeds and other human involvement in the management of internal databases. We evaluate briefly the constraints of current shopping search engines and the benefits of offering a fully automated version. In addition, we consider the application of JTidy, Stemmers and Wrappers, in order to extract the relevant information from a commercial website.