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3 unusual facts about Oren Etzioni


Comparison shopping agent

The first commercial shopping agent, called Jango, was produced by Netbot, a Seattle startup company founded by University of Washington professors Oren Etzioni and Daniel S. Weld; Netbot was acquired by the Excite portal in late 1997.

Oren Etzioni

Etzioni is an entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded several business ventures, including MetaCrawler (bought by Infospace), Netbot (bought by Excite), and Clearforest (bought by Reuters).

Oren Etzioni is an American entrepreneur and professor of Computer Science and Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.



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