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Increasingly, companies are using the Internet to present themselves to customers and provide most up-to-date information and offerings. Hence it can be used to gain competitive information on a regular and timely basis. However, right now this process is mainly based on manual searches and is thus very costly and time consuming. This chapter discusses technical approaches supporting this process.
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Gerstl, P., Kuhn, B., Novak, HJ. (2003). A Web-Based Approach to Competitive Intelligence. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval and Filtering from the Web. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 746. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3739-4_14
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