This site is a handy portal to intelligent agents, software tools that automatically perform a variety of tasks on the Internet. While the Scout Report has reviewed a number of search agents in the past, this is the first agent portal we have come across. At the site, users can learn about agents and the tasks they perform, browse a comprehensive directory of agents resources, and choose from over...

BotSpot, provided by BotSpot Inc., is a large meta-resource for robot and intelligent agent software sites and information. Users can enter via a search or browse gateway to annotated links to bot sites in fourteen subjects including commerce bots, government bots, search bots, and update bots. There is also a bot of the week, an explanation of bots, and annotated pointers to relevant articles,...

This site, sponsored and maintained by the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology (LAIT), focuses on intelligent agents, known alternatively as software agents, knowbots, infobots or intentional agents. The site is divided into several parts, some of which are annotated and some of which contain only links to resources. Annotated resources...