isr.co.ro : glossary Knowbot (with a capital K) The Knowbot Information Service (KIS), a Web page from the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) that lets you search several Internet-related databases to find the street address and/or phone number for Net users. Although it has often been touted as one of the bright spots of the Net, the page was always designed as an experiment and it hasn't been updated in quite a while. (with a small K) A program that follows links across the World Wide Web to collect information for an index or other summary. Also called a spider or worm.