Chapter 33. How Agents Work
The Internet has grown so quickly and its resources are so vast that we need help navigating around it. Special software called agents can help us access the Net’s resources.
Although there are a lot of technical definitions for agents, put simply, agents are programs that do your bidding automatically. Many of them run over the Internet or on individual computers every day. Agents can find the latest news for you and download it to your computer; they can automatically monitor Internet traffic and report on its total usage; they can find you the best deal on the CD you want to buy; they can perform important ...
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