A programming guide explaining how to use C++ to program intelligent agents to find, organize, and present "newspapers" of information from the World Wide Web and screen out what you don't want. Watson (computer scientist, Science Applications International Corporation) describes setting up scanning agents, format retrieval, saving information into databases, and utilizing C++ libraries that support Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and UNIX. The accompanying disk contains all source code. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.