Will Affiliates, Epidemics Or Group-Browsing, Catch On?
Nancy C. Hanger
Does being a portal's affiliate pay off? Are Epidemic's in-mail ads the next bad thing? Does it make sense to surf in groups? Nancy looks at what's happening at AltaVista, Epidemic.com, Net2Gether, and other portal/community sites.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
