WebMate
WebMate: A Personal Agent for World-Wide Web Browsing and
Searching
WebMate is part of the Intelligent Software
Agents project headed by Katia Sycara.
It is a personal agent for World-Wide Web browsing and searching
developed by Liren Chen. It accompanies
you when you travel on the internet and provides you what you want.
Features
- Searching enhancement, including parallel search (it
can send search request to the current popular search engines and get results
from them, reorder them according to how much overlapping among the different
search engines), searching keywords refinement using our
relevant keywords extraction technology, relevant feedback, etc.
- Browsing assistant, including learning your current
interesting, recommending you new URLs according to your profile
and selected resources, giving some URL a short name or alias,
monitoring bookmarks of Netscape or IE, getting more
like the current browsing page, sending the current
browsing page to your friends, prefetching the following
hyperlinks at the current browsing page, etc.
- Offline browsing, including downloading the following
pages from the current page for offline browsing, getting the
references of some pages and printing it out.
- Filtering HTTP header, including recording http
header and all the transactions between your browser and WWW servers,
filtering the cookie to protect your privacy, block the
animation gif file to speed up your browsing, etc.
- Checking the HTML page to find the errors in it, checking embedded
links in to find the dead links for your learning to write HTML pages or
maintain your webmate site, etc.
- Dynamically setting up all kinds of resources, including search
engines, dictionaries available in the WWW, online translation systems
available in the WWW, etc.
- Programming in Java, independent of operating system, runing in
multi-thread.
Enjoy it only when you try it !
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