Sectors
Computer Science
Launched
01/01/1997
Website
Description
Netbot was the first commercial Internet price comparison service. Netbot was acquired by Excite in 1997. Excite was acquired by @Home Network, in 1999. The new company became “Excite@Home,” which went bankrupt in 2001.
Team Members
Oren Etzioni
Co-founder, former professor of computer science at University of Washington, now CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Weld
Co-founder and Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
