Active measure
Search engines
Digital's Altavista (www.altavista.com) - estimated to cover 40% of the 50-60 million Web documets
Hotwired's HotBot (www.hotwired.com) - built using technology from Inktomi -
indexes not only the full-text, but also the location the page, and performs an
analysis for relevance; also it recognizes multimedia files; (54 million
documents - as of 30 Sep. 1996)
Active agents
Bob Kahn introduced the idea of knowbots - Knowledge Robots
- which go out into the network and collect the information which a user wants (or might want).
Infrastructure providing a virtual extension to the handheld
Via distributed processing - the user's device gains not only communication
and information access, but also additional functionality - either on demand
(when needed) or as downloaded "upgrade".
