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

Conference ·
OSTI ID:430822
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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
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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