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Published online 27 January 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030120-16
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Bogus traffic clogs Internet infrastructure
Top web computers plagued by meaningless questions.
Forty-nine of every 50 queries sent to the Internet's most important computers are unnecessary, say US computer scientists. Most local computers are not set up to interact with the outside world efficiently.
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