{"id":105173,"date":"2026-05-26T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=105173"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:30:36","slug":"information-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/information-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Information Agents Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At its annual developer conference recently, Google unveiled something called information agents, a feature that will be built into Search to monitor the web on your behalf. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Information Agents<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An information agent is a<\/span><b> computational software entity (an intelligent agent)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that may <\/span><b>access<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one or multiple, distributed, and heterogeneous <\/span><b>information sources available, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and proactively <\/span><b>acquires, mediates, and maintains relevant information on behalf of its users.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Information agents are supposed to <\/span><b>cope with the difficulties associated with the information overload of the user.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This implies their ability to semantically <\/span><b>broker information by:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">providing a <\/span><b>pro-active resource discovery;<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>resolving the information impedance of information<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> consumers and providers;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offering <\/span><b>value-added information services and products<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the user or other agents.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> information sources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may be of many types, including, for example, <\/span><b>traditional databases as well as other information agents.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Example<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A scenario is that of a user who has heard about a researcher who has proposed something called agent-oriented programming.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agent is asked to investigate, and, after a careful search of various FTP sites, returns with an appropriate technical report, as well as the name and contact details of the researcher involved. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/googles-new-information-agents-are-a-privacy-and-web-infrastructure-problem\/article71009003.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An information agent is an intelligent software entity that accesses and manages information from multiple sources on behalf of users. 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