A recent upgrade to the Genetic Programming bibliography enables monitoring of its www usage. Downloads are dominated by automated software robotic agents (web bots), particularly Yahoo and other search engine spiders. These are very variable and cast doubt that some world wide web hits statistics relate to people. Some 62% of GP papers are on line. PDF is twice as common as postscript. On average papers in the cache can be downloaded in two seconds.
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