[LINK] Hunting the net
Tony Barry
me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:34:31 +1100
Extracted item for information.
Source: THE NET NEWS
From Alan Farrelly
November 13, 2000
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HUNTING THE NET
Searchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center have developed a new information
theory for the Internet suggesting that users rely on age-old
foraging instincts
honed by our hunter-gatherer ancestors to find information. An interesting
exploration of how informavores use optimal strategies to find juicy
information roadkill on the arid expanses of the Information Superhighway - see
http://www.eurekalert.com/releases/ns-sla110800.html
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