Spiders know how to move around a Web.
Using advanced patent-pending classification technology from GTE Laboratories, GTE Directories Corporation is building a comprehensive, searchable database of all the products for sale on the Web. Instead of searching all sites on the Web, GTE's shopping engine retrieves information from online shopping sites, allowing consumers to quickly locate online merchants that sell a particular product without having to wade through a large number of irrelevant and confusing links. GTE's spiders are identifying all online shopping sites based on the presence of key features related to online shopping. The shopping engine will then find all of the Internet sites where the user can purchase a pair of dark blue carpenter jeans with five pockets. Results are returned and ordered based on relevancy.