Describing The Web With Physics

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 5, 2001 @02:34PM from the like-a-large-enough-lever-mated-to-a-spring dept.

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.

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Slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-05 17:55 · Score: -1, Redundant

Man, this has got to be one of the most retarded things posted here in awhile. It's bad enough that some retards bothered to do this "research", but what's worse is that it gets mentioned here on a site which is supposedly "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." Quite frankly, this is isn't worth shit on used toilet paper. You know, they could be using their resources for PRACTICAL RESEARCH instead of this lame academic nonsense which is completely worthless. Please refrain from posting similar garbage in the future.

Thank you.