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Conclusions
Our system is currently under development. We believe that this approach can achieve its aims because it is
simple and because it harmonically combines and uses a number of ideas that proved to be working: caching,
computer viruses, news, reviewing of materials for publication, specialisation in human society.
In conclusion, we would like to highlight distinguishing features of What’sHot:
1. It is easy to use for users.
2. It is transparent for service providers (because it is fully automatic and adaptive) and easy to deploy.
3. It is self-promoting, because both sides (service providers and users) have an interest in it. Service providers
are interested in giving access to brokers because the brokers can not function without knowledge that they
receive in the process of users’ search.
4. It enables people to transparently share their expertise.
5. It is economic because it replicates only valuable information.
6. It is designed to use existing technologies and information sources.
7. It provides a decentralised way for publishing of information, along with existing centralised ones.
8. It provides an opportunity for fair commercial advertising on the Net (because advertising is a type of
publishing).
9. It provides opportunity to trade brokers’ databases.
10. It is designed to automatically adapt to the Internet changing environment.
11. It is scalable.
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