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Mark Gritter
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
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Although for several years the Web was the dominant application used on the Internet, new studies have shown that the Web is now taking second place (in traffic usage) to file-sharing applications such as Napster and Kazaa. These systems use radically different ways of naming documents; the location of a document is no longer relevant, since all documents are found via searches. The same appears to be true to some degree in the Web as well. Although domain names are still important, many Internet users have discovered that search engines provide more relevant results than trying to guess names. However, Internet users and businesses are not likely to abandon the current system soon. No other infrastructure is available with the flexibility and global reach of domain names.
Mark Gritter
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
[email protected]
Although for several years the Web was the dominant application used on the Internet, new studies have shown that the Web is now taking second place (in traffic usage) to file-sharing applications such as Napster and Kazaa. These systems use radically different ways of naming documents; the location of a document is no longer relevant, since all documents are found via searches. The same appears to be true to some degree in the Web as well. Although domain names are still important, many Internet users have discovered that search engines provide more relevant results than trying to guess names. However, Internet users and businesses are not likely to abandon the current system soon. No other infrastructure is available with the flexibility and global reach of domain names.
