Moving up the information food chain: Deploying softbots on the World Wide Web

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:430822

Etzioni, O ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)

I view the World Wide Web as an information food chain. The maze of pages and hyperlinks that comprise the Web are at the very bottom of the chain. The WebCrawlers and Alta Vistas of the world are information herbivores; they graze on Web pages and regurgitate them as searchable indices. Today, most Web users feed near the bottom of the information food chain, but the time is ripe to move up. Since 1991, we have been building information carnivores, which intelligently hunt and feast on herbivores in Unix, on the Internet, and on the Web.

• OSTI ID: 430822
• Report Number(s): CONF-960876-; CNN: Grant 92-J-1946; Grant F30602-95-1-0024; Grant IRI-9357772; TRN: 96:006521-0197
• Resource Relation: Conference: 13. National conference on artifical intelligence and the 8. Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference, Portland, OR (United States), 4-8 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and the eighth innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference. Volume 1 and 2; PB: 1626 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 MATHEMATICS
COMPUTERS
INFORMATION SCIENCE
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LAW
MISCELLANEOUS
INTERNET
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE