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3 unusual facts about Oren Etzioni


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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).

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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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