AntWorld: A Collaborative Web Search Tool
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We describe our experiences designing and using AntWorld, a tool developed to make it easier for the members of a common-interest user group to collaborate in searching the web. It is hoped that this report may be of interest to designers of similar systems, as well as to potential users.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000