Sears department stores used to plant employees in competitor stores to perform research and analysis. Recently the company implemented a system that can search competitor websites and provide comparisons of price, promotions, and availability and the system is saving time, money, and resources. What type of system did Sears implement? Group of answer choices

The correct answer is shopping bot.

Explanation:

A bot (robot apheresis) is a computer program that automatically performs repetitive tasks over the Internet, whose realization by a person would be impossible or very tedious.

Some examples of bots are the web crawlers of Internet search engines, which run through websites automatically and collect information from them much faster and more effectively than a person would. "Good" bots meet robot exclusion standards, which server operators can use to influence a robot's behavior within limits. "Malicious" bots are used, for example, to collect email addresses for advertising purposes, to make unauthorized mass copies of web content or to systematically spy on server software vulnerabilities in order to penetrate them. In social networks, bots are used to simulate human interaction, artificially inflating the number of visits or followers, or automating responses to position messages or influence debates. The so-called conversational bots are artificial intelligence systems that simulate a conversation with a person using natural language.