Describing The Web With Physics

Fungii writes: "There is a fascinating article over on physicsweb.com about 'The physics of the Web.' It gets a little technical, but it is a really interesting subject, and is well worth a read." And if you missed it a few months ago, the IBM study describing "the bow tie theory" (and a surprisingly disconnected Web) makes a good companion piece. One odd note is the reseachers' claim that the Web contains "nearly a billion documents," when one search engine alone claims to index more than a third beyond that, but I guess new and duplicate documents will always make such figures suspect.

Comments

99 bottle of beer

[xixax]

100 million URLs on the net, 100 million URLs
Take one down, pass worms around,
99 million URLs on the net...

Xix.

hmmm

[sewagemaster]

it's all about the right hand law (with F-normal force represented by the middle finger), friction, and porn!!

*grin*

when describing

[a 00 y0u]

I try to avoid physics and use words instead. It is sooo much easier than having to remember all those equations. ugh.