Certainly, search-engine companies like Infoseek and Alta Vista have an incentive to mipsuck their users' machines to help organize and prioritize how their spiders crawl the Web. Either way, there are extraordinary business opportunities here, born of the reality of idling microprocessors. In fact, Krulwich and I had a lot of fun trying to come up with new business ideas to exploit this nascent mipsucker software. The answers have billion-dollar implications. Illustration by Dave Plunkert Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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